Oakton Community College

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Website: https://www.oakton.edu/
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Federal Circuit: 1st Circuit

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  • Inside the Bizarre Right-Wing Political Correctness Movement That Threatens Free Speech

    November 14, 2015

    By Zaid Jilani at AlterNet  Raucous protests at the University of Missouri, Ithaca College and Yale have highlighted the tension between students who desire a tolerant campus and the American value of free speech. Most of the discussion about these events in the media portrays a struggle between left-wing students and administrators trying to implement diversity and speech codes versus right-wing students and administrators trying to protect certain kinds of speech. But political correctness is far from just a left-wing phenomenon, and there are many instances of right-wingers trying to silence speech on campus. Here are some of the ways […]

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  • Was Oakton Instructor’s Email a Threat or Free Speech?

    June 14, 2015

    By Christopher Placek at Daily Herald A national First Amendment advocacy group is accusing Oakton Community College of trampling over a former faculty member’s free speech rights, but the college’s president says she felt personally threatened by the contents of the instructor’s email. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has come to the defense of former Oakton instructor Chester Kulis, who sent an email to colleagues — and the college’s retiring President Margaret Lee — on May 1 stating “Have a happy MAY DAY when workers across the world celebrate their struggle for union rights and remember the Haymarket […]

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  • Oakton College Says Email by Former Adjunct Teacher Was Threatening

    June 11, 2015

    By Lee V. Gaines at Chicago Tribune Lawyers for Oakton Community College say a one-sentence email from a former adjunct lecturer at the school commemorating May Day and the Haymarket riot in Chicago constituted a threat of violence against the institution and outgoing president Margaret B. Lee. On May 1, Chester Kulis, who has served as an adjunct instructor of both sociology and law enforcement studies at the college since 1989, copied Lee on an email titled “MAY DAY — The Antidote to the Peg Lee Gala.” The email read: “Have a happy MAY DAY when workers across the world […]

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  • College Claims a Reference to a 129-Year-Old Riot is a Threat

    June 8, 2015

    By Jesse Walker at Reason Online The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports: Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president…. “Merely noting to one’s colleagues that May Day is a time when workers ‘remember’ the Haymarket Riot does not constitute a ‘true threat,’” said Ari Cohn, a Senior Program Officer and lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). “The United States Department of the Interior has designated the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument […]

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  • College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President

    June 8, 2015

    CHICAGO, June 8, 2015—Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president. Lawyers for the Chicago-area college argue that the email, which noted that May Day (May 1) is a traditional time for workers to remember the riot, threatened violence. Last month, OCC demanded that the now former faculty member “cease and desist” from similar communications in the future or face potential legal action. May Day is celebrated every year on May 1 by the international labor […]

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