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Wabash College Event this Wednesday
FIRE President Greg Lukianoff will be at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana this Wednesday to present a lecture entitled, “Liberty in Peril: Academic Freedom on our Nation's College Campuses.” The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall. The event is free and open to the public, so if you’re in the area stop by to hear about FIRE’s latest struggles to preserve liberty on university campuses.
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