Ep. 213: Campus unrest - live webinar

Host Nico Perrino joins his FIRE colleagues Will Creeley and Alex
Morey to answer questions about the recent campus unrest and its
First Amendment implications. 


 


Timestamps


 


0:00 Introduction 


0:41 What is FIRE?/campus unrest


5:44 What are the basic First Amendment principles for campus
protest?


11:30 Student encampments 


18:09 Exceptions to the First Amendment


29:01 Can administrators limit access to non-students/faculty?


34:13 Denying recognition to Students for Justice in Palestine


36:26 Were protesters at UT Austin doing anything illegal?


40:54 The USC valedictorian 


45:09 What does “objectively offensive” mean? / Does Davis apply
to colleges?


46:55 Is it illegal to protest too loudly?


50:03 What options do colleges have to moderate/address hate
speech?


54:20 Does calling for genocide constitute bullying/harassment?


59:09 Wrapping up on the situation 


 


Show Notes


 


“USC canceling valedictorian’s commencement speech looks like
calculated censorship,” Alex Morey


“Emerson College: Conservative Student Group Investigated for
Distributing ‘China Kinda Sus’ Stickers,” FIRE’s case files


“HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship,”
Nadine Strossen


“Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the
Risks of Freedom,” Aryeh Neier (pdf)


“David Goldberger, lead attorney in ‘the Skokie case,’” “So to
Speak” Ep. 118


Transcript