The University of Wisconsin System is poised to restore the First Amendment rights of its student resident assistants and allow Bible studies in their dormitories.
Ed Swan feared that his teaching career would end before it started, merely because his ideology differed from that of his professors at Washington State University.
Hate speech is not a category of speech recognized under current constitutional law, but is rather a convenient way to pigeonhole speech that some people find offensive.
FIRE is deeply disappointed the Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal in Hosty v. Carter, leaving student newspapers at public universities in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin vulnerable to administrative censorship.
