ACLU warns University of Illinois to respect free speech after officials clamp down on climate change group and Palestinian group

Before University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student Gabi DalSanto was cleared to register for spring classes after being placed on a recent academic hold for defying school policy during a student-led climate march, she filed stacks of paperwork, worked with a case manager and wrote a several-page essay on what she would do differently in the future. “It felt like what you would do in detention — it was crazy,” DalSanto said. “It shows a really big shift in the university’s outlook on expressive action.” DalSanto, a second-year environmental science major...