The Torch

Last Friday, Flag Day, marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette.

Amanda Tatro, the student plaintiff in Tatro v. University of Minnesota (in which FIRE filed an amici curiae brief along with the Student Press Law Center), has reportedly died at the age of 31.

Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center has an excellent piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education discussing what's at stake for student speech rights in Tatro v. University of Minnesota.

A Syracuse University law student was investigated for "harassing" statements allegedly made on the satirical blog SUCOLitis.

Spring is here, and so is our latest edition of The FIRE Quarterly! This newest issue focuses on highlighting the many FIRE victories that were achieved in recent months.

Inside Higher Ed has an interesting article regarding a CUNY Brooklyn professor and administrator who wrote a controversial essay regarding people of religious faith.

Scott McConnell was recently expelled from Le Moyne College in Syracuse because his personal beliefs didn't fit within the school's indoctrination grid.

Columbia’s Ad Hoc Grievance Committee issued a report detailing its findings regarding the ongoing academic freedom controversy.

A dispute has escalated between a small college in New York state and a student who was barred from the school's teacher training program because he wrote a paper in support of corporal punishment.

The lack of serious local coverage of this case is one of the reasons that this case has gone on so long.