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April 1, 2010

Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

Top reading on campus today includes Nightlight, a parody of the bestseller Twilight by Harvard satirists, and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.

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March 31, 2010

Academic Freedom is Not Tied to Tenure

Ashley Thorne

Today Peter Wood posted an article explaining how academic freedom should be a privilege for anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous......

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March 31, 2010

New Pope Center Paper Sheds Light on Student "Accommodations"

George Leef

Last week, the Pope Center released its latest paper, in which author Melana Zyla Vickers investigated the shadowy world of mandatory student accommodations for those who have (or at least have docu......

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March 31, 2010

Duke Gets FIREd

Glenn Ricketts

Our friends at FIRE continue their meritorious work on behalf of free speech on campus, this time at Duke, which, as you may recollect, has had some problems with the idea over the years. In this in......

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March 31, 2010

Administrators and Academic Freedom

Peter Wood

Anyone who is committed to the search for truth through rational inquiry and dispassionate and scrupulous use of evidence deserves the protection of academic freedom.

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