An employee at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis was (sort of) absolved this month after being reprimanded for reading a book about the history of the Ku Klux Klan during a break from his janitorial work last November.
The employee, Keith Sampson (also a student at the university), apparently hit a nerve with coworkers when they noticed […]
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A student at Valdosta State University in Georgia, expelled last year for posting activist flyers on Facebook, says he still doesn’t understand why the administration took such extreme action against him.
The student, Hayden Barnes, was attempting to raise awareness about a new parking garage development being built on campus when he posted the flyer in […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2008
Update on a previous report: The president of Montclair State University in New Jersey announced Thursday that the school’s student-run newspaper—which had been temporarily locked down by the student government in charge of funding it—will be fully funded throughout the rest of the academic year.
President Susan A. Cole also said the Montclarion would be fully […]
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Typically when you hear about a college newspaper being threatened with censorship, budget cuts or a publication freeze, the university administration is the agent pulling the plug. Not so at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where the student governing board ordered the student-run Montclairion newspaper to stop the presses in the midst of threatened […]
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Posted in Freedom of Religion on Feb 10th, 2008
Professor Guillermo Gonzalez, known at Iowa State University as a vocal supporter of intelligent design theory, is well aware of the controversy his views have stirred up over the years.
One indicator could have been the 2005 circulation of a campus-wide petition denouncing intelligent design (the belief that the universe was deliberately created by a […]
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