Bucknellians for Freedom of Expression

Why Are College Students So Afraid of Me?
Because adults at places like Bucknell and Holy Cross have convinced them they are oppressed.
WSJ, November 27, 2019

Why Are College Students So Afraid of Me_ - WSJ.pdf

"the politics of the intersectional Left are deeply anti-intellectual. It’s not just that many intersectional activists seem to have no capacity for nuance; they fear and hate it, because they hate anything with the potential to complicate their narrative. Things are right or wrong; you’re with us or against us. Human beings, rather than complex agents with independent motivations and intellects, are nothing more than the sum total of their identities. Get on the bus or get under it."

Get On the Bus or Get Under It: Shouting Down Free Speech at Rutgers - Quillette The quiet suburb of New Brunswick, New Jersey, felt more like East Berlin, or Belfast, when I visited on the evening of October 2nd. The student center of Rutgers University had been transformed into a loose approximation of Checkpoint Charlie. After passing through the obligatory picket line (“Are…

Private universities have no First Amendment obligation to provide a forum for speech. But many riots purport to attack white “supremacy” or “privilege,” and if private universities act with deliberate indifference to racially motivated attacks, they may be liable to students or speakers

Campus Speech and Anti-Klan Laws Have you been censored or shouted down? You may have legal recourse. Here’s a handy guide.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452412/georgetown-conservative-professors-students-intellectual-diversity?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Judge

Why Georgetown University Students Want More Conservative Professors on Campus The student newspaper's simple request that the school introduce more diverse thought is one many universities should heed ...

The battle on our campuses—and ever more, in K-12 schools, is being framed as a battle for equity, but that’s a false front
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/first-they-came-for-the-biologists-1506984033

First, They Came for the Biologists The postmodernist left on campus is intolerant not only of opposing views, but of science itself.

Jeff Sessions Has a Point About Free Speech on Campus. BucknellU
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-28/jeff-sessions-has-a-point-about-free-speech

Jeff Sessions Has a Point About Free Speech Now if only he'd tell his boss.

"While large majorities of both Democrats (71 percent) and Republicans (85 percent) say that colleges should never prohibit speech on their campuses, there were also stark divides on the current state of freedom of expression on campus."

http://forthemedia.blogs.bucknell.edu/bucknell-institute-for-public-policy-poll-shows-political-divide-on-higher-education/

Bucknell Institute for Public Policy Poll Shows Political Divide on Higher Education « For the Media Results of a new Bucknell Institute for Public Policy national poll on Americans’ views on higher education finds that Republicans are less satisfied than Democrats with the nation’s state of higher education. The poll showcases deep partisan divides over campus politics, race and diversity issues,…

A powerful Editorial from WSJ, on the risks for democracy of the new attitudes about speech on campus:

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/james-madison-weeps-1505862810

Thank you, Barry Munn for highlighting this important, groundbreaking research by Jasmine Mena, who teaches psychology at Bucknell University.

By interviewing 13 non-white women at “predominantly white institutions” she conclusively proved the existence of five (previously undiscovered) forms of “invisibility microaggressions.”

Kudos to the NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Journal for publishing this exhaustive (7th grade level) scientific effort and to BucknellU for sponsoring it.

Academics Discover New Way To Get Offended: 'Invisibility Microaggressions' Two professors claim to have discovered a new form of politically incorrect offense called "invisibility microaggressions," which are said to be even more subtle than regular microaggressions. Their p

The university experience in America is now not one that will adequately prepare students for real life.

Safe spaces and ‘ze’ badges: My bewildering year at a US university | The Spectator As a child in Glasgow, I learned that sticks and stones might break my bones but words didn’t really hurt. I’m now at New York University studying journalism, where a different mantra seems to apply.

I applaud the University of Montana where the Faculty Senate at its spring meeting overwhelmingly endorsed the The University of Chicago ’s statement on principles of free expression. No viewpoint diversity BucknellU ! http://mtstandard.com/opinion/letters/letter-to-the-editor-applaud-support-for-free-speech/article_54c9da77-9f9c-58b6-8ae8-e1d928fd7b2f.html

Letter to the editor: Applaud support for free speech Recent incidents at the University of California-Berkeley where protesters threw Molotov cocktails and broke windows at the site of a sponsored lecture, and at Middlebury College where protesters assaulted a

It's essential for universities to prepare students to become citizens by teaching them how to reason well, how to argue well, and how to debate well. A university that encourages emotional grandstanding and tolerates violence is like a hospital that wounds and maims its patients. In both cases, there is a loss of purpose.

True Revolutionaries on College Campuses | RealClearEducation After a year like the one we’ve had so far, it is remarkable that the protestors at Mike Pence’s Notre Dame commencement speech even qualified as “news.” There’s nothing “new