
Chris Perez
Program Officer
Chris Perez graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a B.A. in English and a minor in classical studies. During his four years at Penn, Chris swam distance freestyle for the varsity swim team and was voted captain his senior year. Chris has interned in the editorial department at SmartBrief, Inc., as a news researcher and brief writer and has also interned in the editorial department at W. W. Norton Publishing, where he worked on manuscripts ranging from an analysis of free speech in wartime to a Sherlock Holmes anthology to a tribute to the Baobab tree. At the end of his senior year, the College at Penn awarded Chris the Charles W. Burr Book Prize for his independent study of short pieces of fiction and nonfiction. His interests include Russian literature, writing, and economics.
Contributions to The Torch
- "Freshman Orientation: Education? Or Indoctrination?," Chris Perez, September 19, 2007
- "Yale Fights For Free Speech," Chris Perez, August 17, 2007
- "Remember the First Amendment?," Chris Perez, August 14, 2007
- "“Dangerous to Air Dangerous Ideas?”," Chris Perez, August 7, 2007
- "‘Husain v. Springer’: Really a First Amendment Issue?," Chris Perez, July 27, 2007
- "When the Truth is Too Outrageous to Parody," Chris Perez, July 24, 2007
- "A Fishy View of Education," Chris Perez, July 23, 2007
- "Celebrating July 4th," Chris Perez, July 3, 2007
- "‘Legalize It,’ Just Don’t ‘Smoke It’," Chris Perez, June 27, 2007
- "Introducing This Summer’s Interns," Chris Perez, June 21, 2007
- "FIRE’s Summer Internship Program Begins," Chris Perez, June 11, 2007
- "The Danger of “Hate Speech”," Chris Perez, May 31, 2007
- "Feelings and Freedom of Speech," Chris Perez, May 25, 2007
- "Hopkins Again Disappoints FIRE," Chris Perez, May 11, 2007
- "Why Private Schools Need to Follow Their Own Rules," Chris Perez, April 18, 2007
- "FIRE Again Asks Brody to Embrace Freedom of Expression," Chris Perez, April 2, 2007
- "The Danger of Policies," Chris Perez, March 28, 2007
- "Truly Fostering Debate," Chris Perez, March 9, 2007
- "The Problem with Name-Calling," Chris Perez, February 19, 2007
- "Do Your Research," Chris Perez, February 6, 2007
- "At Princeton, a (Mostly) Satisfactory Resolution to the Satire Controversy," Chris Perez, January 24, 2007
- "Here We Go Again: A Satire Uproar at Princeton," Chris Perez, January 19, 2007
- "2006 and the Culture of Offense," Chris Perez, January 5, 2007
- "Summer 2007 Legal Internships," Chris Perez, January 3, 2007
- "Summer 2007 Internships," Chris Perez, December 20, 2006
- "Brody, Mill, and the “Truth”," Chris Perez, December 13, 2006
- "American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Questions Marquette," Chris Perez, December 5, 2006
- "Public Pressure on Hopkins Continues," Chris Perez, December 1, 2006
- "Brown's Hypocrisy," Chris Perez, November 27, 2006
- "Offended? Overreact!," Chris Perez, November 9, 2006
- "Columbia Continues to Feel the Heat in the ‘Sun’," Chris Perez, October 12, 2006
- "Columbia on ‘The Daily Show’," Chris Perez, October 11, 2006
- "FIRE Letter to the Editor in ‘The Daily Princetonian’," Chris Perez, October 4, 2006
- "Harvard Football Coach Tosses Player for ‘Mean-spirited Attack’," Chris Perez, September 26, 2006
- "FIRE Summer Intern in California's 'Daily Journal'," Chris Perez, August 24, 2006
- "Student-Athletes May Face Increased Online Community Restrictions," Chris Perez, July 19, 2006
- "When Administrators Put ‘Public Image’ Over the First Amendment, Everybody Loses," Chris Perez, July 18, 2006
- "The Interns Have Arrived," Chris Perez, June 20, 2006
- "Acton Gorton’s ‘Truly Astonishing Experience’," Chris Perez, May 10, 2006
- "‘That Exhibit Is Going to Go Up’," Chris Perez, April 26, 2006
- "Penn State Gets It Wrong," Chris Perez, April 25, 2006
- "The Need for Vigilance," Chris Perez, April 11, 2006
- "Is Kutztown Slipping?," Chris Perez, March 3, 2006
- "Columbia College Can’t Cope with Criticism," Chris Perez, January 31, 2006
- "Report Documents First Amendment Abuses in North Carolina," Chris Perez, January 10, 2006
- "FIRE’s Mitchell in the Harrisburg ‘Patriot-News’," Chris Perez, January 5, 2006