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Last Chance to Enter FIRE's Essay Contest for a $5,000 Scholarship!
FIRE's Third Annual "Freedom in Academia" Essay Contest will stop accepting submissions on Monday, November 1. High school seniors graduating in 2011 can watch two excellent FIRE videos and submit an essay explaining why free speech should be protected on college campuses.
This year, FIRE will award one first-place winner a $5,000 scholarship, one second-place winner a $2,500 scholarship, and five runners-up $1,000 scholarships.
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Can the government ban controversial public holiday displays?
If the government invites holiday displays, it can’t ban the ones it dislikes. Open the forum, lose the veto — even for Satanic statues.
The trouble with banning Fizz
On college campuses across the country, students and administrators are debating bans on Fizz, a mobile app that lets users within a particular community communicate anonymously.
FIRE's 2025 impact in court, on campus, and in our culture
We are proud to serve as the nation's premier free speech watchdog. Here's what we accomplished this year.
VICTORY: Court vindicates professor investigated for parodying university’s ‘land acknowledgment’ on syllabus
Ninth Circuit rules UW violated the First Amendment by punishing a professor for putting a satirical land acknowledgment on his syllabus.