October 17, 2007
Free speech on campus

Over at The New York Times, law professor Stanley Fish addresses some of the issues in Evan Coyne Maloney's flim, "Indoctrinate U." Maloney's response can be found here. I want to touch on one of the points that Fish mentions and Maloney's response. Fish: Then there’s the matter of speech codes. This is a fake […]

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September 26, 2003
Cal Poly administration gets what's coming to it

And that's a lawsuit from the Center for Individual Rights. If you're looking for some background on the issue, you can check out my blog posts here, here and here. You can also check out some work on the case done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education here. Cal Poly will lose this […]

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August 12, 2003
PC, racism and Cal Poly

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has posted a transcript of the kangaroo court proceedings against Cal Poly student Steve Hinkle. [Adobe Acrobat Reader required. HTML highlights here.] For those of you unfamiliar with the case, Hinkle walked into Cal Poly's multicultural center to post a flyer advertising a speech by conservative Mason […]

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July 26, 2003
There's a right way, and a wrong way...

to handle the issue of free speech on campus. The wrong way is how Cal Poly has done it with regard to Steve Hinkle who is getting the book thrown at him for posting a non-offensive flier. The right way is illustrated by UC San Diego, which determined that a far more offensive publication was […]

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July 7, 2003
Conservative white male = racist?

Talk about stereotypes. (I would argue that liberal white males are more likely to be racist in the way they treat minorities as barely competent children who somehow need a helping hand from the more privilged.) But the comment that prompts this post has to do with my alma mater, Cal Poly SLO. It seems […]

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