University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Location:		Champaign, IL 61820
Website:		http://www.uiuc.edu

Speech Code Rating

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been given a speech code rating of Red. You may read more about this institution's speech code rating at this page.

FIRE Cases at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mohammed Cartoon Controversy: FIRE Response to Intimidation and Newspaper Disputes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Student Investigated for Facebook.com Comments About School Mascot Debate

Recent Media Coverage of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Do College Republicans hate Allah?," Reason Magazine, April 9, 2007
"Mascot retired," The Evening Bulletin, February 20, 2007
"More than a mascot," Inside Higher Ed, February 19, 2007
"When Speech Becomes a Crime," San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2006
"U.S. media response to cartoons skewered," Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2006
"'Free speech' cries ring hollow on college campuses and beyond," USA Today, April 19, 2006
"Months after flap, Muhammad cartoon re-emerges," The Daily Princetonian, April 11, 2006
"Speech codes choke off discourse, satire," The Daily Reveille (Louisiana State Univ.), April 6, 2006
"The image of hypocrisy," The Boston Phoenix, March 29, 2006
"Images offensive to Muslims are debated," Baltimore Sun, March 14, 2006
"College Urged to Stop Censoring Prof's Display of Muslim Cartoons," Agape Press, March 13, 2006
"Professor Fears Retribution Over Mohammed Cartoons," Cybercast News Service, March 10, 2006
"Professor censored over Muhammad cartoons," World Net Daily, March 10, 2006
"Specifics on Max P. cartoon incident still cloudy," Chicago Maroon, February 24, 2006
"Objectivists host panel on Danish cartoons," Chicago Maroon, November 30, 1999

Posts to The Torch About University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"FIRE Quarterly: ‘From the Board of Directors’," March 2, 2007
"Lessons from the Communications Revolution," February 26, 2007
"Illinois Retires Chief Illiniwek," February 16, 2007
"David Ross Asks an Uncomfortable Question," February 16, 2007
"Misunderstanding ‘Threats’ at the University of Illinois," February 15, 2007
"Free Speech Zones at University of Illinois," January 10, 2007
"Acton Gorton’s ‘Truly Astonishing Experience’," May 10, 2006
"Possibly the Most Newsworthy Cartoons in History," March 17, 2006
"Student Press in Jeopardy with ‘Hosty’," March 3, 2006