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May 14th, 2010
Rights in the News: From Campus Climate to Climate Research
Two people who heard from FIRE this week are Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli and Southwestern College Superintendent/President Raj K. Chopra. Attorney General Cuccinelli was warned by FIRE, along with the AAUP and ACLU of Virginia, of the threat to academic freedom posed by his civil investigation of the climate science research of former University of Virginia professor Michael Mann. Meanwhile, FIRE warned Chopra again to clean up SWC's act and give its students and faculty a free speech policy worthy of the First Amendment before somebody sues.
As Adam discussed earlier, FIRE may soon have its hands full with another California community college district--the Peralta Community College District, which is considering an unconstitutional new free speech zone even as it pays out $90,000 of the people's money to settle a lawsuit filed over its punishment of students' religious speech. This latest development was reported by Matt Krupnick for the Contra Costa Times, citing FIRE's long history of successful advocacy against free speech zones around the country.
More speech code advice this week comes from the college press via the Bucknell University student paper The Counterweight, in an article by incoming FIRE intern Kirby Thomas, ...