A colleague yesterday passed around an editorial from The Alligator, an independent student newspaper at the University of Florida (UF). The article referenced the recent controversy surrounding the university's refusal to recognize the Upsilon chapter of Beta Upsilon Chi (BYX), a Christian men's fraternity dedicated to "establish[ing] brotherhood...
As discussed previously on The Torch, in June the California State Assembly approved legislation by a 72-1 vote that would protect high school and college educators from retaliation against administrators angry about articles published by student journalists. The bill, Senate Bill 1370, flew through...
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in DeJohn v. Temple University upholding a decision by a federal district court that Temple University’s former speech code is unconstitutional. Temple’s code prohibited, among other things, “generalized sexist remarks and...
In the current issue of The Boston Phoenix, FIRE Co-Founder and Board Chairman Harvey Silverglate decries the downfall of parody and satire as legitimate forms of expression on college campuses. Among the cases from the past twenty years discussed in the piece, titled "Parody Flunks Out," Harvey...