Tag: Colleges And Universities

On college campuses across the country, student protesters are constructing tent cities decorated with signs calling for a ceasefire and the recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Campus codes at private colleges and universities seek to resolve the conflict between the right to speak freely and the educational mission of the institution. The ham-handed and over-legalistic responses by the three university presidents show how this attempt to balance speech and safety can create confusion, conflict and the opportunity for selective enforcement decisions based on academic fashion, not values of free and open debate.

Make no mistake, affirmative action is dead, at least as it has traditionally been defined. But Roberts’ majority opinion also created an immense loophole.