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FIRE’s Azhar Majeed Recalls 2012’s Free Speech Victories in ‘PolicyMic’

Although 2013 is finally here, FIRE's Associate Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Azhar Majeed doesn't want us to forget the victories won for students' expressive rights in 2012! Yesterday in PolicyMic, Azhar recounted several of the wins students on campuses across the country garnered last year.
Azhar regales PolicyMic readers with tales of overturned speech codes at the University of Southern California and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a few other hard-earned speech code revisions in 2012. Check out these stories of free speech victories in Azhar's PolicyMic piece today!
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