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Lakeland Community College
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Student Handbook: Student Conduct Code Policy 09-10
Speech Code Rating: Red
Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility, Statement
Last updated: December 12, 2013Examples of misconduct include: ... Using language that is degrading or abusive to any person. Read MoreStudent Handbook: Student Conduct Code Policy 09-10
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Speech Code Category: Internet Usage Policies, Statement
Last updated: October 28, 2013Abuse or inappropriate use of college computers, computer equipment or facilities including but not limited to: [...] (5) use of computing facilities to create, send or receive obscene, harassing or abusive messages.... Read MoreStudent Handbook – Prescribed Conduct 06-07
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Speech Code Category: Policies on Tolerance, Respect, and Civility, Statement
Last updated: December 12, 2013It is the intent of this procedure to create a learning environment that is based on honesty, civility and the freedom to pursue knowledge. Such an environment must be free of harassment and hostility in order to encourage each individual to attain his or her fullest potential. Read More
Lakeland Community College: Disciplining of Professor for Religious Speech
December 5, 2003
Lakeland Community College removed a professor of moral philosophy from his classes as punishment for refusing to hide his religious identity from students. The college threatened Dr. James Tuttle, who espouses traditional Catholic beliefs, with dismissal because he made statements on his syllabi and in class that disclosed his religious faith and how that shaped… Read more
Bible Studies: Not So Bad After All
March 14, 2006
FIRE’s press release today announces a tremendous victory for religious liberty throughout the 13 schools in the University of Wisconsin System. Since last November, the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC) has been under attack for a policy that banned RAs from leading Bible studies—or studies of any other holy book—in their dorm rooms, on the… Read more
Philosophy Professor, Punished for Disclosing Religious Beliefs, Sues College
June 30, 2004
CLEVELAND, OH,—A philosophy professor who was punished for disclosing his religious viewpoint to students has filed suit against Lakeland Community College in Ohio. Professor James Tuttle was disciplined by the administration and later stripped of his classes for making statements on his syllabi and in class lectures that referenced his religious faith and how it… Read more
A Heretic in Academe
March 18, 2004
In March of last year, philosophy professor James Tuttle received a complaint that had been forwarded by his superior at Lakeland Community College in Ohio. The student letter-writer charged that Prof. Tuttle had made comments she deemed offensive to women and gays, and that he’d also shown signs of hostility to Muslim women. “I feel,”… Read more
Just Think, the Original Universities Were Created by Catholics…
February 8, 2004
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