Free Speech on Campus - Page 13

Texas State University’s student senate recently held an “emergency meeting” to vote on a resolution calling on the school to ban its police department. The resolution was authored by one student senator who was arrested last week during an incident on campus involving the assault of a student wearing a MAGA hat, but appears to have not passed a student senate vote.

A student at the University of Missouri was caught on video destroying a Turning Point USA flyer that had been promoting the group’s upcoming event. The vandal then proceeded to call the school’s TPUSA vice president a “fascist” in response to the conservative student questioning him about the flyer he had destroyed.

Turning Point USA representative Brittni Coffeen joined host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the weekly TPUSA campus report. Coffeen talked about her recent experience at UNLV, where an effort to recruit new TPUSA members was met by protesters who destroyed their display and assaulted conservative students.

An arsonist at Western Washington University set fire to a pro-life poster on Saturday that had been promoting an upcoming speaking event featuring Kristan Hawkins, the president of the pro-life student group, Students for Life of America.

Williams College President Maud S. Mandel condemned the college’s student government for refusing to recognize a pro-Israel student group.

Texas State University’s police chief released a statement to provide an update regarding the recent arrests of four students, one who had assaulted a conservative student wearing a MAGA hat.

The media director for a website fighting the battle for free speech on college campuses has expressed his approval of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe blacklisting conservatives they label “dangerous” from Facebook and other social media platforms.

Four students were arrested at Texas State University on Wednesday after gathering on campus to counter-protest a biker group’s demonstration that had never occurred. One of the students arrested had reportedly assaulted a conservative student present who was wearing a MAGA hat.

In under a week, the U.S. has been subjected to three major anti-Jewish events that flow from three different poisonous wells.

Students supporting Planned Parenthood at the University of Texas-San Antonio mocked members of the school’s Students for Life of America group in front of a pro-life display last month. One pro-Planned Parenthood student shouted that “aborting fetuses” is her “number one kink.”

Black pro-life activist Ryan Bomberger faced a smoke bomb attack during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin this week.

More than 200 professors signed a letter this week urging President Donald Trump and Congress to hold universities accountable when they violate the First Amendment.

The nation’s largest group of pro-life students has released an interactive map that illustrates attacks on free speech on college and university campuses throughout the country.

UC Berkeley hosted a three-day conference on “Right-Wing Studies” appearing to conflate politically right of center views with white supremacy and other forms of extremism.

A protester set off a stink bomb during a Jeff Sessions speech at Amherst College this week.

An anti-Israel resolution at the University of Maryland — that was scheduled for a vote during Passover — failed on Wednesday after a five-hour debate among members of the school’s student government and campus community.

Criminal charges have been dropped against three University of Arizona students who filmed themselves harassing border patrol agents last month at a career fair on campus.

Williams College is planning to review and revise its policies due to student outrage over a faculty petition to adopt principles in favor of free speech on campus. Student protesters claim that “free speech harms” minorities and therefore, must be curtailed.

Administrators at Middlebury College apologized this week for their decision to cancel a lecture by Polish conservative Ryszard Legutko.

A professor at John Carroll University says that the school “fortunately” does not have to abide by the First Amendment, as it is a private university that can ban “hate speech” from the student newspaper. The professor, who spoke to Breitbart News about a recent incident involving a conservative student editor censored by the school’s newspaper, acknowledged that she still needs to figure out how to define the term “hate speech.”

Students at George Mason University say that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who is a visiting professor this summer at George Mason’s law school, poses a threat to their “mental health.”

Christian students at Taylor University in Indiana are up in arms over Mike Pence’s scheduled commencement address that will take place in May.

Middlebury College canceled a lecture this week by Polish philosopher and politician Ryszard Legutko after students criticized his beliefs on feminism and homosexuality.

A conservative student from Park City High School in Utah is speaking out after a fellow student released bear spray inside the school’s lecture hall ahead of a Turning Point USA event. The incident resulted in nearly twenty students and staff members being treated by medical professionals, and one person hospitalized.

South Seattle College Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter president Katie Daviscourt told Breitbart News that she feels “more empowered than ever” despite last week’s “bias incident” resulting in a hit and run car accident and a phone call to 911. The conservative student offered her remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

John Carroll University’s student newspaper, the Carroll News, is revising its editorial guidelines in an effort to censor speech after students took offense to a conservative Catholic student editor expressing his views in the newspaper. The newspaper then released a statement chastising the editor, suggesting that “free speech” should make everybody “feel safe in its harmony,” and that the Catholic student’s views are in “direct conflict” with the mission of the Jesuit university. The editor has since resigned from his position.

Students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia have circulated a petition that calls for the firing of celebrated instructor Camille Paglia.

Antifa members and their sympathizers are reportedly planning to “shut down” Monday’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event at the University of Pennsylvania, where TPUSA founder and executive director Charlie Kirk and communications director Candace Owens will be speaking.

Some might say that it is ironic that watchdog groups and media members who say they are trying to combat hate are tolerating it at best and spreading it at worst. It isn’t ironic, it is deliberate.

The new joint campus police chief for Mount Holyoke College and Smith College in Massachusetts has been placed on leave after his personal Twitter account sparked outrage among students. The police chief had allegedly “liked” tweets from the National Rifle Association and President Donald Trump, which caused students to question whether their campus community is “safe.”

The principal of Epping High School in Epping, New Hampshire, has apologized after telling one of his students to remove her “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat and cover up her Trump t-shirt. The student was wearing the MAGA apparel in support of the president for the school’s “American pride day.”

Texas State University President Denise M. Trauth reiterated the importance of free speech in a statement on Friday, amid a recent vote by the school’s student government to ban the conservative organization Turning Point USA. In her statement, the university president also informed the public that student government “does not have the power to ban a student organization.”

Police are investigating a hit and run accident they consider a “bias incident” after a man allegedly followed the president of the South Seattle College Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization with his vehicle as she walked to her car on Thursday. The incident — which occurred following an argument between the two individuals over TPUSA signage on campus — resulted in the conservative student calling 911 after the man struck another vehicle while circling her with his SUV. The suspect is still at large.

A student from Park City High School in Park City, Utah, is facing 18 criminal charges after releasing bear spray inside the school’s lecture hall last week, which resulted in nearly twenty students and staff members receiving a visit from medical professionals, and one person hospitalized.

University of Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins has rejected calls to install an Internet filter on campus that would block pornography.

The student government at Texas State University voted on Monday to blacklist Turning Point USA from the school. The resolution listed several accusations about the conservative student group, while confusingly making the argument that free speech can only be protected on campus by silencing TPUSA.