Academic freedom

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• UC Davis Occupiers Force Negotiations

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 485
  In a second occupation at Mrak Hall, student activists forced the administration to negotiate, make several concessions, and enter into discussion about their demands. See  the full story , complete with a scan of the agreement signed by UC administrator Janet Gong.All thanks to the disobedient!
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• No Free Speech for Comparative Effectiveness Researchers?

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 539
  We have repeatedly argued why comparative effectiveness research, under ideal circumstances, would be a good idea.  As I said before : Physicians spend a lot of time trying to figure out the best treatments for particular patients problems. Doing so is often hard. In many situations, there are many plausible ...
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• the debate I wanna see (Will Phillips v. Carrie Prejean)

  
  Tony's curricublog — Authority: 104
  On CNN Monday morning (Nov. 16, 2009), ten-year-old Will Phillips his reason for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance in his fifth-grade class:I’ve grown up with a lot of people and I’m good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and [...]
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• ARE HATE CRIME LAWS LEGALIZING TREASON?

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  Jeff Gates   The Anti-Defamation League silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the US was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence, says Jeff Gates.Lawful Treason?Winning Read More......( read more )
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• Pro-life student president president back on the job as College agrees after letter sent to officials that recall election violated state law.

  
  Values Voter News — Authority: 490
  This is an update to Student president faces removal after allowing free speech on campus on Consitution Day To see the possible display that was in dispute at below college that the University of CA at Berkely allowed see Genocide Awareness Project hits liberal University of CA at Berkely with disturbing yet ...
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• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, ...
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• U.S. Campus Watch Copycats Close in on Israeli Professors

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the witch-hunt tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. “I have no hesitation in calling this a McCarthyite campaign,” said David Newman, a politics ...
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• California is Burning

  
  How The University Works — Authority: 485
  Update: you’ve got to watch this video . Yesterday the UC Regents walked into a room packed with gasoline and nonchalantly lit their cigars–handing down tuition increases that will hike 2010 rates 44% over 2008, turning higher ed into a gated community for the offspring of California’s “Real ...
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• Shocking News: Our Dear Friend Betty Malone

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  MEG! What happened??Nance and I have just learned of Betty’s passing — stunned and saddened. Dear in life, dear in memory. Betty posted a comment here Sunday, about the religious left emerging. She had been writing on FaceBook about having the flu, and then the morning of Nov. 13 said she was feeling better, [...]
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• David French: A Victory in Sacramento, For Now

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom , writing at National Review’s Phi Beta Cons blog : "Student activists — working with allied administrators — removed Steve from office and launched an illegal recall effort after he refused to censor a pro-life display on Constitution Day. David ...
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• Sacramento College student body president back after pro-life display fight

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  LifeNews : "Respecting people’s First Amendment rights is worthy of praise, not punishment, said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel David Hacker. The recall election against Steve was wrongly motivated and flawed. The entire process against him began because he stood up for the free speech rights of a pro-life group. In ...
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• Pelosis Constitutional Contempt

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 545
  by Walter Williams : At Speaker Nancy Pelosis Oct. 29th press conference, a CNS News reporter asked, "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Speaker Pelosi responded, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" The reporter ...
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• LAWSUIT ACCUSES WSU’S MURROW COLLEGE OF VIOLATING JOURNALISM PROFESSOR’S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS

  
  All Spin Zone — Authority: 491
  SPOKANE, Wash. (Spectrum Features Syndicate)— A Washington State University journalism professor filed a federal lawsuit against four administrators at his university who, he says, violated his First Amendment rights when they punished him for proposing a “7-Step Plan” to improve the quality of the unaccredited ...
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• Is the Supreme Court getting ready to rule on the rights of campus student groups?

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  ADF attorney Jordan Lorence writing at the ADF Center for Academic Freedoms Academic Freedom File blog : "Observers of the United States Supreme Court are noting the unusually-long scrutiny the justices are giving to Christian Legal Society v. Martinez , the case where the University of California-Hastings (in San ...
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• 1st Amendment shoved aside on Constitution Day

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  OneNewsNow : "A student council president under fire at Sacramento City College now has legal representation . . . Hes been retaliated against by these school administrators who called into question his faith," says [David] Hacker. The attorney explains that the administrators have removed [Macias] from student ...
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• David French on the Michael Medved Show: Student body president attacked over pro-life group’s display

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom , appeared on the Michael Medved Show to discuss this: College launches attack campaign on student body president over pro-life group’s display. The MP3 runs about 33 minutes.
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• Free speech impinged at OSU

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 534
  Daily Vanguard : "The Students Alliance and The Liberty are seeking equal rights to speak on campus according to their attorney, Heather Gebelin Hacker of the Alliance Defense Fund . . . The defendants have been served and their answer to the complaint is due on Nov. 30, said Katie Blechacz, media relations manager of ...
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• Under Pressure from Police, Parole Board Stops Levasseur from Speaking at UMass Amherst

  
  Blogging Censorship — Authority: 457
  After being dis-invited upon pressure from Governor Deval Patrick and then re-invited by a faculty group, Ray Luc Levasseur is now stopped from speaking at The University of Massachusetts – Amherst because his parole board refused to let him leave Maine. The parole board has not given any reasons for this ...
  2 weeks ago

• NTNU Boycott Defeated

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 429
  A unanimous decision of the executive board scraps the measure. A big crisis averted, and a big setback for the radical anti-Israel, anti-coexistence fringe.
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• Speak Up When Pro-Child Politics Are Attacked as Anti-Parent

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Here we go again. Families, child-rearing and home education publiclystereotyped as conservative extremism and anti-human rights, sigh. Ifyou parent and/or educate children and don’t fit this stereotype, makeyour voice heard too. Don’t let this define your principles.Parental rights rally on Washington planned: ...
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