Saint Cloud State University: Thought Reform and Suppression of Free Speech

Case Materials

• "Bell Tolls for Suzie Williams (not the Liberty Bell); Lawless President to Leave St. Cloud," June 5, 2000: Interim President Suzie Williams of Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota will be stepping down at the end of this academic year. Her disregard for the First Amendment, due process, and free speech was egregious even by the sad standards of current American academic life.
• "Lawless University President Tramples the First Amendment," FIRE Press Release, April 18, 2000: The president of St. Cloud State University was prosecutor, judge, and jury in an unconstitutional assault upon the free speech rights of an undergraduate student.

Media Coverage

• "FIRE Challenges Campus Judicial System, Political Correctness Organization Seeks to Rectify Perceived Injustices," Dean & Provost, December 1, 2000
• "Defending Free Thought and Expression," John Silber, Syndicated column, June 5, 2000
• "Righteous Idiocy," Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times, May 11, 2000
• "Genocide in the Classroom," Paul CraigRoberts, LewRockwell.com, May 4, 2000
• "Critics of Political Correctness Rise to Defense of Student Who Used Racial Analogy," Nina Willdorf, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 26, 2000

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