Firing of UT Dallas newspaper editor raises free speech questions

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Rising tensions over free speech between the College of Texas at Dallas and the employees of its pupil newspaper, The Mercury, got here to a head lately when the newspaper’s adviser, a college worker, known as a vote to fireplace the highest editor. In a memo to the Scholar Media Working Board (SMOB)—a gaggle of…

Columbia’s president denounced her in Congress. Firing subsequent?

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In January, pro-Palestinian protesters on Columbia College’s campus mentioned they’d been sprayed with a dangerous chemical. College students had been hospitalized. No arrests had been reported. Katherine Franke, Columbia’s James L. Dohr Professor of Legislation, advised Inside Larger Ed that the left-leaning radio and tv newscast Democracy Now! reached out to her in regards to…