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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Campus sacrifices community safety, intellectual integrity for provocative speakers

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights asserts that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Wealthy donors puppeteer campus administration’s decisions on free speech

As many of us have heard and read, Chancellor Carol Christ has declared 2017 a “free speech year” at UC Berkeley. To ensure the importance of “diverse” viewpoints on campus, she announced a long-term program of events — most significantly confirming the return of Milo Yiannopoulos to campus for a
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