Daily Archives: January 20, 2014

Greater Boston Video: Abortion, Protest Zones And Free Speech
The length of a school bus is the distance protestors must keep between themselves and the door to health care facilities that perform abortions in Massachus...

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Joshua Mackey voice over for Free Speech TV - IV
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Free Speech Killed On The Internet! Money! Greed!
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Nude TSA Protest = Free Speech Says Circuit Court Judge89

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Chris Kluwe
Chris is the author of the new book Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities. Chris is an outspoke...

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FAIRBANKS The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit civil rights group, concluded in a study of United States universities that nearly two thirds of schools maintain policies that infringe on students free speech rights.

The foundation surveyed 427 policies in place at 427 public and private universities and examined reported cases of recent civil rights issues at those schools. It then rated each school in one of three categories: green light, yellow light or red light.

The majority of the schools surveyed, 250, received red light ratings, the worst possible, while 152 received yellow light scores. Only 16 schools received green light scores.

Speech codes policies prohibiting student and faculty speech that would, outside the bounds of campus, be protected by the First Amendment have repeatedly been struck down by federal and state courts for decades, the report states. Yet they persist, even in the very jurisdictions where they have been ruled unconstitutional; the majority of American colleges and universities maintain speech codes.

The three four-year schools in the University of Alaska system received reviews by the foundation none received green light scores.

University of Alaska Fairbanks received a yellow light rating from the foundation based on its policies as of February 2013. A yellow light school maintains policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or policies that, while clearly restricting freedom of speech, restrict only narrow categories of speech, according to the foundation.

The foundation cited several policies in its yellow-light determination, including the schools harassment policies and dorm room decoration policy.

UAFs dorm decoration policy states that decorations must be consistent with the universitys acceptable standards and should not be visible to the public. It also gives discretion for removal to residence hall assistants.

UAF received a positive rating from the foundation for its free speech policy, which accords all students their constitutional rights to free speech.

In its report, the foundation cited numerous past reports on UAF in the news, including its recent review of the student newspaper, The Sun Star for two articles it ran in its April Fools edition last year.

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