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Guide to Student Life: Bias Incidents and Hate Crimes
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: May 5, 2020Scripps College stands against bigotry in any form. Scripps students, faculty or staff targeted by a member of the Scripps or TCC community because of disability, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, race or ethnicity, immigration status, religion, sexual orientation or because of association with... Read MoreGuide to Student Life: Code of Conduct- Advertising, Publicity, and Solicitation Policy
Speech Code Rating: Yellow
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: May 5, 2020Before it is copied, the original poster must be brought to OSE, Dean of Students Office, or the Humanities Institute Office for approval. Flyers without an approval stamp will be removed (exception: residential life flyers). Flyers must state the name(s) of the sponsoring organizations/people, a contact name, and a... Read MoreDiscrimination and Harassment Policies and Grievance Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 5, 2020One form of unlawful harassment is sexual harassment. Sexual harassment may be either “quid pro quo” harassment, that is sexual advances or requests for sexual favors where submission is made an explicit or implicit term or condition of an individual’s employment or education or where submission or rejection is used... Read MoreGuide to Student Life: Principles of Community
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: May 5, 2020Scripps believes that learning and teaching thrive in an environment conducive to freedom of belief, inquiry, and speech, assuring expression of the broadest range of opinions and beliefs. Scripps commits itself to maintaining that freedom, subject only to regulation of time, place, and manner. Recognizing that such... Read MoreDiscrimination and Harassment Policies and Grievance Procedures
Speech Code Rating: Green
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: May 5, 2020Prohibited harassment is conduct that creates an intimidating, offensive, or hostile working or academic environment, or that interferes with work or academic performance, including harassment based on a person’s protected status, including race, color, national origin, ancestry, immigration status, sex (which inclu... Read More
FIRE Q&A: Steven Glick of ‘The Claremont Independent’
May 24, 2016
Steven Glick is editor-in-chief of the The Claremont Independent, a student-run newspaper whose motto is “Upholding Truth and Excellence at The Claremont Colleges.” In addition to being a student-athlete, the 21-year-old rising senior majoring in economics at Pomona College was, until last semester, a writing fellow at the school’s Writing Center, which “provides faculty and… Read more
‘Disinvitation Season’ 2016 Begins: Cue the Commencement Controversies
April 28, 2016
POLITICO gave a rundown earlier this week of the after students and faculty members protested the selected speakers and honorees. Unsurprisingly, there are many. Among the notable examples are the University of Notre Dame for asking both former Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden to speak, the University of Alabama… Read more
Michigan State President Denies Disinvitation Attempt Against George Will
December 11, 2014
George Will, like too many other speakers, is no stranger to requests that he be disinvited from college campuses. In October, students at Scripps College in California successfully petitioned the college to rescind Will’s speaking invitation. Later that month, students and faculty at Miami University of Ohio attempted—and failed—to have Will disinvited from a campus… Read more
At Miami University of Ohio, Students Engage in Debate, Not Disinvitation
October 24, 2014
All too often, FIRE’s message—that engaging in meaningful debate with controversial speakers is more useful than censoring them—falls on deaf ears. However, Miami University (OH) bucked the growing disinvitation trend by refusing to rescind its speaking invitation to columnist George Will, despite pressure to do so from students and faculty. By refusing to abandon its… Read more
George Will Disinvited at Scripps College
October 7, 2014
As readers of The Torch may recall, FIRE has seen an increase in recent years of universities disinviting speakers due to their unpopular or controversial views. Columnist George Will and the students of Scripps College in California may be the most recent victims of this trend. As reported by the Claremont Independent (Scripps is one… Read more
Problems with University Bias Policies and Attempts to Improve Campus Climate
November 19, 2012
This fall, FIRE is writing a blog series about how schools can reform their problematic speech codes and earn a “green light” rating from us—a distinction currently awarded to just 15 of the more than 400 schools in our Spotlight database, but one we hope to be able to award to many more in the… Read more
Posting Policies Frequently Restrict Student Expression
October 30, 2012
This fall, FIRE is writing a blog series about how schools can reform their problematic speech codes and earn a "green light" rating from FIRE—a distinction currently awarded to just 16 of the more than 400 schools in our Spotlight database, but one we hope to be able to award to many more in the… Read more
Two More ‘Bias Incident’ Reports at the Claremont Colleges
December 3, 2008
The Claremont Consortium is at it again. FIRE has received word of two more "bias related incident" e-mails from Claremont administrators. You may remember that Claremont has a protocol of notifying all students at all five Claremont colleges when such incidents occur. Previous Consortium-wide e-mails followed minor incidents such as the writing of "Hillary is… Read more
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