Comments on: Feds unveil new, drastically restrictive, campus speech regime

By: After furor, feds walk back campus speech/discipline code a bit - Overlawyered

After furor, feds walk back campus speech/discipline code a bit - Overlawyered — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:30:11 +0000

[…] got an article on the controversy due to appear in a forthcoming issue of Commentary. Earlier here, here, and here. […]

By: Furor continues over federal campus speech code - Overlawyered

Furor continues over federal campus speech code - Overlawyered — Wed, 29 May 2013 04:45:06 +0000

[…] here and here. […]

By: Schools roundup - Overlawyered

Schools roundup - Overlawyered — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:15:08 +0000

[…] More commentators weigh in on the truly horrible new federal campus speech and discipline code [Harvey Silverglate /Juliana DeVries, Minding the Campus; Wendy Kaminer, The Atlantic; Will Creeley, HuffPo; Scott Greenfield; Reason TV; my two cents] […]

By: Hans Bader

Hans Bader — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:58:29 +0000

Syndicated columnist Mona Charen criticizes this First Amendment violation perpetrated by the Justice Department and Education Department at this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-scraps-free-speech-070000053.html

I disagree with the Obama Administration’s interpretation of Title IX. (I used to practice education law, including working at the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights).

The Administration has also sought to undermine due process protections in campus harassment proceedings:

http://www.examiner.com/article/education-department-illegally-ordered-colleges-to-reduce-due-process-safeguards

By: John David Galt

John David Galt — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:00:47 +0000

At least this (fairly predictable) outrage has a small silver lining: colleges can exempt themselves by ceasing to accept federal funds. I hope plenty of them will, thus demonstrating to potential new students which are still “serious” universities (as opposed to those that have gone Communist to the point of complete dishonor).

What the public should be raising hell about is the similar speech code that effectively applies to all workplaces thanks to the so-called sexual harassment law; even small employers can’t exempt themselves from that.

By: wfjag

wfjag — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:23:55 +0000

George Carlin is now unwelcome on campus.

By: Hans Bader

Hans Bader — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:39:46 +0000

Education writer Joanne Jacobs, and Reason Magazine, have also criticized the speech-suppressing new harassment guidelines that reject the longstanding “reasonable person” limitation on harassment claims and allow even the most isolated (and legitimate) discussions of sexual issues to be deemed “sexual harassment” by defining that to include “any” unwelcome communication that is subjectively offensive to the complainant:

http://www.joannejacobs.com/2013/05/u-s-rule-makes-every-student-a-sex-harasser/

http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/10/say-anything-sexual-that-offends-anyone

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:09:10 +0000

The proposed campus speech control is in a “seamless garment” with (1) politically-based IRS harassment, (2) blasphemy-law promotion in conjunction with the Benghazi disinformation, and (3) the drive to cut off funding from unapproved speech (ie “the press”– mass dissemination of speech).

There has been talk about a “litmus test” on abortion for judicial nominees. There should be a “litmus test” for both judicial and executive nominees of robust support for the First Amendment, without which our democratic polity is empty noise.