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Kors {#foreach $T.Years as year} <div class="year"> <div class="year_header"> <span>{$T.year.Year}</span> </div> <div class="year_months"> {#foreach $T.year.Months as month} <div class="month"> <a href="{$T.month.Url}" year="{$T.year.Year}" month="{$T.month.MonthN}">{$T.month.MonthName}</a> </div> {#/for} </div> </div> {#/for} Archive by Years academic freedom Administrative bureaucracy Award Barnette Belfast Project Boston College Boston Globe Boston Phoenix Campus Diversity Censorship Dharun Ravi Due Process FIRE First Amendment Forbes.com Ford Hall Forum Free Speech Freedom of Conscience Freedom of Speech government overreach Harassment Harvard Injustice Department Letter to the Editor Manhattan Institute Minding the Campus Mindingthecampus Muzzle Awards OCR Dear Colleague Letter Rutgers Sensitivity Training sexual harassment Suffolk University Supreme Court Tyler Clementi UMass University of Rhode Island Vagueness Wall Street Journal washington post Wesleyan Widener School of Law Yale	Manhattan Institute Q&A Podcast Available April 10, 2012 1:43:58 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel On March 28, I attended a forum at the Manhattan Institute with KC Johnson where we discussed the dismal state of free speech and due process rights on America's campuses. The Institute has just posted the audio of the Q&A session that followed our talks. You can find a link to the podcasts after the jump. read more → Tags: Administrative bureaucracy , Due Process , First Amendment , Freedom of Speech , Harvard , Manhattan Institute Rutgers Conviction Goes Too Far March 20, 2012 2:04:53 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel The New Jersey Star Ledger has a piece out today in which Paul Mulshine discusses the recent conviction of Dharun Ravi. Ravi shared a Rutgers dorm room with Tyler Clementi, a gay student who later committed suicide, and faced charges stemming from his setting up a camera to spy on Clementi. In comments I made for the article, I suggest that while Clementi's privacy rights were clearly violated by Ravi's camera setup, the New Jersey legislature's attempt to create new hate crime and anti-harassment laws in response to the Rutgers case is an overreaction that violates the principle of equal application of the law. This case should have been a matter of a fundamental violation of privacy rights. Instead, the New Jersey legislature and Rutgers administrators are fighting an ideological battle to make political correctness the law of the land. read more → Tags: Administrative bureaucracy , Dharun Ravi , government overreach , Harassment , Rutgers , Tyler Clementi Caleb Warner's Story Continues to Inspire November 07, 2011 4:10:21 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel Caleb Warner may not be returning back to school this year, but he has been inspiring people to speak out against the guidelines for prosecuting sexual assault on college campuses. On July 15th I published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about Caleb, a University of North Dakota student accused of sexual assault. Caleb was kicked out of school and the local police swore out an arrest warrant; not for him, but for his accuser. Utilizing the same evidence that led to his expulsion from school, the police determined that Caleb was not guilty, and that his accuser had filed a false police report. Even though police felt there was clearly insufficient evidence to bring charges (much less convict), the school was perfectly comfortable bringing him in front of a disciplinary board and expelling him. They were so comfortable, in fact, that even after Caleb's accuser left town following the warrant for her arrest, the school still did not agree to rehear his case. But after a summer of bad press, along with intensive lobbying by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of North Dakota vacated all of Caleb's charges, including his expulsion. While he has said he is unlikely to return to the University of North Dakota, he now has a clean record, and can move on with his life. Caleb's story has also inspired a number of other people who are concerned about due process on campus. read more → Tags: Administrative bureaucracy , Due Process , OCR Dear Colleague Letter , sexual harassment , Wall Street Journal Boston Globe letter: Higher Education’s Administrator Overload June 07, 2011 3:12:35 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel While in recent weeks the Boston Globe has penned a number of stories about the rising costs of higher education, the articles ignore one of the most significant factors behind the inflation of tuition: the massive student-life bureaucracy taking over the institutions. In a letter to the editor published today, I write how these bureaucracies not only siphon off money better used for education, but they also fuel the increasingly disturbing tyranny exerted over the daily lives, and beliefs, of students. [End of post] read more → Tags: Administrative bureaucracy , Boston Globe , Letter to the Editor

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