University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Location:		Amherst, MA 01003
Website:		http://www.umass.edu

Speech Code Rating

University of Massachusetts - Amherst 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 Massachusetts - Amherst

Recent Media Coverage of University of Massachusetts - Amherst

"Flunking free speech," Reason Online, December 24, 2007
"Freedom Watch: UMass Amherst parodies itself," The Boston Phoenix, March 11, 2005
"‘Lyle’ Portends Life Without Freedom, ‘Friends,’ ‘Seinfeld’," Daily Journal, March 10, 2005
"Send Out the Clowns," The Boston Phoenix, October 28, 2004
"Double standard on free speech?," The Boston Globe, October 25, 2004
"Satirical UMass Students Victims of 'Double Standards,' Says FIRE," Agape Press, October 21, 2004
"UMass failing constitutional test," Boston Herald, October 16, 2004
"Under the Radar: Political Correctness Never Died," Reason, July 1, 2004
"The Tyranny of Hecklers," The Boston Globe, June 2, 2003
"The Final Lecture," The Washington Dispatch, May 29, 2003
"The Great Tattling Scare on Campuses," The Chronicle Review, January 31, 2003
"Meet the New Boss... Same as the Old Boss," Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 4, 2001
"Thought Reform 101," Reason, March 1, 2000

Posts to The Torch About University of Massachusetts - Amherst

"What 9/11 Taught Us About Academia," September 11, 2006
"Art and the Myth of the ‘Right Not to Be Offended’," October 21, 2005
"Silverglate Reponds to Critic of UMass Amherst Column," March 30, 2005
"Defending Speech Codes?," March 24, 2005
"Harvey Silverglate in the ‘Boston Phoenix’: ‘UMass Amherst parodies itself’," March 10, 2005
"Occidental College’s Ongoing Shame: Part 1," March 1, 2005
"The Censors’ Favorite Team," February 4, 2005