NR Daily: Secretary DeVos Should Remind Colleges of Their First Amendment Obligations

Administrators at New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are engaged in a wholesale crackdown on student speech. RPI employees have been caught on tape removing signs criticizing the administration and sanctioning students for engaging in speech protected by the school's own policies. RPI has brought charges against students for peacefully protesting the school's recent black-tie fundraiser, even accusing one student of illegally "operating a business" by distributing fliers critical of Rensselaer ...

December 01 2017

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