After the group invited a speaker from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to Main Campus, Student Affairs reprimanded it. New student organizations face a slew of challenges during their first year. Distinguishing themselves from similar organizations, building a solid membership base and getting their names out around Main Campus are among some of [...]

Duke rape policy: If you’re perceived as “powerful,” it wasn’t consensual By: J.P. Freire Associate Commentary Editor 04/07/10 1:05 PM EDT Duke University’s new sexual misconduct policy can render a student guilty of non-consensual sex simply because he or she is considered “powerful” on campus, according to the non-profit Foundation for Individual Rights in Education [...]

Our favorite talk show host Glenn Beck recently criticized Paul Ryan, for giving a speech in which he tried to rehabilitate progressives such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Beck’s criticism came after he read this post over at the popular conservative Hot Air blog, in which Ryan is praised for being a “real progressive.” Unlike Ryan, Beck [...]

Victory for Free Speech at Duke: Pro-Life Group’s Rights Restored March 30, 2010 DURHAM, N.C., March 30, 2010—Duke University has reversed a decision by its Women’s Center that prohibited the Duke Students for Life (DSFL) student group from holding a discussion on student motherhood at a Women’s Center venue during the group’s “Week for Life” [...]

Duke Keeps Pro-Life Group Out of Women’s Center During ‘Week for Life’ March 29, 2010 DURHAM, N.C., March 29, 2010—Duke University’s Women’s Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women’s Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that “we have a problem” [...]

University of Chicago Repeatedly Censors Student Facebook Posts March 24, 2010 Joke about ‘Israel Lobby’ Author’s Assassination Leads to Police Investigation CHICAGO, March 24, 2010—For the second time in two years, the University of Chicago has censored a student’s post on a private Facebook page. Undergraduate Joseph “Tex” Dozier posted a joke that he had [...]

The late Michael Radu’s new book, published posthumously, alas, by Encounter Books, discusses, clearly and forthrightly, the Islamization of Europe. And it contains a Foreword written by…me. “Michael Radu, with characteristic incisiveness, cuts through the mindless multicultural relativism of modern liberalism to demolish the illusions of well-meaning but ignorant…

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Federal Court Strikes Down Gun Rights Protest Restrictions at Tarrant County College March 16, 2010 FORT WORTH, Texas, March 16, 2010—Late yesterday, in a striking victory for the First Amendment on campus, a federal district court in Texas ruled that a number of restrictions on students’ speech at Tarrant [...]

In “Glenn Beck, Think Before You Preach” in Human Events today, Pamela Geller calls out Glenn Beck for smearing Geert Wilders: Something very disturbing happened last Monday on FOX. Glenn Beck, who has, for the most part, steered clear of jihad, sharia and Islamic supremacism, put his toe in the…

So now standing up for the rights of women and non-Muslims, the freedom of speech (yes — here is a post on those who claim that he opposes it), and the freedom of conscience is fascist. But Jacqui Smith and the other British dhimmi officials who barred Wilders from…