A newly reported document shows how a faculty committee analyzed Wax’s speech and teaching outside normal channels, conveniently allowing Penn to sidestep the academic freedom standards that protect controversial faculty expression.
Indiana University has refused to be transparent about alleged ‘security concerns’ that prompted cancellation of Palestinian painter Samia Halaby’s exhibit.
Last semester, after students took to the spirit rocks to express their views on the Palestinian crisis, UT Dallas decided the speech was too political and removed the rocks completely.
Free speech fallout continues from the disastrous congressional testimony on campus anti-Semitism given earlier this month by the presidents of Penn, MIT, and Harvard.
Earlier this month, Princeton professor Robert George’s appearance at Washington College provided yet another example of what’s known as the “heckler’s veto.”
