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A chilling open records request for UMass professor’s emails

September 19, 2019

In flawed but ultimately helpful ruling, First Circuit recognizes limited right to cross-examination in campus disciplinary proceedings

August 8, 2019

UMass Amherst faces new lawsuit over event implicating Israeli-Palestinian conflict

April 29, 2019

UMass RAs Are Not Amused by Your Harambe Memes

September 6, 2016

FIRE’s Silverglate and UMass Amherst’s Patai: Campus Diversity Initiatives Are ‘Ideological Training Camps’

April 27, 2016

UMass Amherst Tells Court That ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter Is Not Binding Law

December 4, 2014

NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ and ‘Chronicle of Higher Education’ on Campus Sexual Assault and Due Process

September 3, 2014

UMass Chancellor: Campus Leaders Must Encourage Debate, Not Censorship

July 31, 2013

FIRE’s Top 3 Free Press Cases

January 31, 2013

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FIRE Receives Response from UMass: Code Changes Forthcoming?

May 3, 2011

Student Rights in Jeopardy as University of Massachusetts Considers New Speech Codes

April 26, 2011

Under Pressure from FIRE, UMass Amherst Revises 2010's Speech Code of the Year

February 14, 2011

UMass Amherst: Frequent Student Rights Violations and Unconstitutional Policies Ensure Place on '12 Worst' List

February 4, 2011

FIRE in 'The Huffington Post' on America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech

January 27, 2011

2010's Speech Code of the Year: UMass Amherst

January 5, 2011

UMass Chancellor Wonders Why College Coverage Is So Negative

December 28, 2010

Speech Code of the Year: 2010

December 28, 2010

Speech Code of the Month: University of Massachusetts Amherst

September 2, 2010

Unprincipled Hypocrisy Drives UMass to Do the Right Thing--This Time

November 10, 2009

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At UMass-Amherst, Political Pressure Leads to Cancellation of Appearance by Former Militant Radical

November 9, 2009

Victory for Freedom of Speech at University of Arizona: Refund of Security Fee for Controversial Speaker

July 6, 2009

Glaring Deficiencies Revealed in Police Report Following Theft of ‘The Minuteman’

June 18, 2009

Blog

Rights in the News: FIRE on a Roll with Numerous Victories and Successful Videos

April 24, 2009

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Victory for First Amendment Rights at UMass Amherst: Administration Rejects Censorship of Newspaper

April 23, 2009

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Victory for First Amendment Rights at UMass Amherst: Administration Rejects Censorship of Newspaper

April 23, 2009

Press Release

Rights in the News: A Good Week for FIRE at Virginia Tech

April 17, 2009

First Amendment Chaos at UMass Amherst

April 16, 2009

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UMass Amherst Stands by as Student Newspaper is Stolen and Censored

April 16, 2009

Press Release

UMass Amherst SGA Ejects Senator Standing Up for the First Amendment

April 16, 2009

UMass Amherst Student Government Has a Chance to Restore First Amendment Rights

April 15, 2009

Derek Khanna removed from SGA senate meeting

April 15, 2009

Rights in the News: At Maryland, Virginia Tech, UMass and Elsewhere, FIRE Cases Grabbing Headlines

April 10, 2009

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FIRE Vice President Pens Op-Ed for ‘The Boston Globe’: ‘Why no one should be silenced on campus’

April 9, 2009

Thousands of Papers Go Missing at Catholic University; Editors Get Little Help from Administration, Police

April 7, 2009

Greg in ‘Huffington Post’ on ‘Hell Week for Campus Free Speech’

April 3, 2009

Hell week for campus free speech

April 2, 2009

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Video: Newspaper Theft at UMass Amherst While Police Officer Watches

April 2, 2009

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Breaking News: Freedom of the Press Disrupted at UMass Amherst

April 1, 2009

Four FIRE Cases on Security Fees Top Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle

March 31, 2009

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

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Defending Speech Codes?

March 24, 2005

‘Lyle’ Portends Life Without Freedom, ‘Friends,’ ‘Seinfeld’

March 10, 2005

Blog

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

Send Out the Clowns

October 27, 2004

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Satirical UMass Students Victims of 'Double Standards,' Says FIRE

October 20, 2004

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Repression and Double Standards at UMass Amherst

October 14, 2004

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