Last week, FIRE kicked off the school year with the placement of a full-page advertisement in the current "America's Best Colleges" edition of U.S. News and World Report, which helped generate record traffic to our website and introduce parents, students, and faculty around the country to FIRE's work....
Last year, we wrote about the case of University of Delaware student Maciej Murakowski, who was barred from his classes and his dormitory pending a psychiatric examination because of material on his website that another student found offensive and which university officials found "racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic." Murakowski soon...
As students head back to college, we encourage them to join FIRE's Campus Freedom Network (CFN) and take part in FIRE's newly launched CFN Incentive Program. When students recruit new members, publish op-eds about FIRE issues, or host FIRE speakers, they earn points and receive prizes including books, gift certificates,...
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for September 2008: Pennsylvania State University. Penn State's "Penn State Principles" require students to agree that "I will not engage in any behaviors that compromise or demean the dignity of individuals or groups, including intimidation, stalking, harassment, discrimination, taunting, ridiculing,...