Thursday, May 17, 2012
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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

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Eliminating Free Thoughts in the Name of False Safety


Administrators at the University of Rhode Island, in an attempt to make their campus more "welcoming" and "safe," recently agreed to implement "sensitivity training" in response to a student protest that centered on campus GLBT issues. A closer look at the events preceding the protest makes clear that the accommodations do more harm than good. As I explain on Minding the Campus, not only do they disrespect the intelligence, maturity and backbone of GLBT students at URI, but they fail to prepare students for the real world where the sometimes-unpleasantness of a free society is, thankfully, protected by the First Amendment.

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