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Harvey Silverglate

CS.RSS Subscribe to Blog Subscribe to All The latest news from The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education a nonprofit organization whose mission is to oppose censorship and maintain freedom at American colleges and universities, created in 1999 by Harvey and Alan C. 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 5:43:58 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 Caleb Warner's Story Continues to Inspire November 07, 2011 8:10:21 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 How Corrupted Language Moved from Campus to the Real World February 23, 2010 8:19:14 AM by Harvey Silverglate Yes Cancel Over the past dozen years, my main areas of law practice have resulted in two books: The Shadow University (co-authored with Alan Charles Kors), which discusses the deprivations of liberty and related absurdities on American campuses, and Three Felonies a Day, which recounts how vague statutes have made everyone a potential target of federal prosecutors. What connects these seemingly disparate phenomena? As I explain in this Minding the Campus blog entry, "the respective cultures of the college campus and of the federal government have each thrived on the notion that language is meant not to express one's true thoughts, intentions and expectations, but, instead, to cover them up." Rules and regulations-both on campus and in the real world have been expressed in language that no one can really understand. As a result, students and citizens have, with increasing frequency, inadvertently run afoul of the rules and have suffered for it. [End of post.] read more → Tags: Due Process , Minding the Campus , Vagueness

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