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Rights in the News: Harvey’s Harvard Candidacy Continues to Grab Headlines
As April's election for Harvard University's Board of Overseers draws nearer, the candidacy of ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø co-founder and chairman Harvey Silverglate continues to attract attention and enthusiasm. Scot Lehigh's is just the latest testament to this, as Adam wrote earlier for The Torch (and as the Cato Institute's Cato @ Liberty blog as well). Even unlikely supporters such as this have taken notice of . ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø expects the energy to continue to rise in the final weeks before voting ballots are sent out to Harvard alumni.
Hopefully you've read Bill Rivers' (which Adam blogged about yesterday) of the Residence Life program at the University of Delaware (UD), posted on the National Association of Scholars' website. For those wanting a deeper education on UD's reeducation attempts, NAS has recently made available for viewing a panel discussion from their recent conference (""), focusing heavily on UD's program and featuring Adam as one of the three panelists.
Elsewhere, the campus culture of San Francisco State University (SFSU) is the subject of a by Richard Cravatts, who notes the prominent role ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø played in ensuring the right of free expression for SFSU's College Republicans, who were subject to an investigation by SFSU after holding an anti-terrorism rally in which protestors stepped on makeshift Hamas and Hezbollah flags.
Lastly, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø is the subject of an in The Post, an independent student newspaper at Ohio University (OU). Wesley Lowery's article—drawing heavily on input from FIRE's Samantha Harris and Will Creeley—lays out in detail the policies that have earned OU a "red-light" rating on FIRE's Spotlight, and articulates the perils at which universities ignore warnings from ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø over their unconstitutional policies. Students and administrators alike would do well to give a read.
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