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		<title>Tufts Still Struggling with Free Speech</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Trustees Approve Free Speech Policy," said the November 30th headline in the Tufts student newspaper. This purports to be good news, but this is Tufts, a university addicted to bragging about free expression on campus while introducing yet another version of its long-discredited speech code.
The one-page "Declaration on Freedom of Expression at Tufts University" contains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Polite Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indispensible FIRE&#8212;the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education&#8212;bestows a regular mock honor on some offending college or university: the Speech Code of the Month. So far this year, the winners have included New York University (which bans, among other things, inappropriate jokes and teasing), the University of Idaho (no "insensitive" actions or communications), Northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Stories and a Job Notice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Cruz, Ca.&#8211;As California works to plug an epic budget shortfall, severe budget cuts are threatening the twin qualities &#8212; excellence and access &#8212; that have defined the University of California as the world's leading public research university. At UC Santa Cruz, faculty, students, and staff worry about the impact the state's financial meltdown is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Presses! U. Mass Believes in Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A convicted terror bomber, Raymond Luc Levasseur, invited by a far left center to speak at the University of Massachusetts. Amherst, was disinvited after pressure from police groups and Governor Deval Partrick, then reinvited when the university president Jack Wilson intervened. Levasseur is a former leader of the United Freedom Front a radical group responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Speech Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abby Thernstrom famously called our colleges and universities "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," meaning, of course that for some twenty years, no other American institutions have worked harder to repress free speech. Consider these recent adventures in the long campus campaign against free expression:
 
- After a peaceful protest over budget cuts by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fire This Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the tenth anniversary dinner last night for FIRE&#8212;the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education&#8212;I asked Robert Sibley of the group if they were still winning 97% of their cases filed for student freedom. Greg Lukianoff, head of fire, gave me that statistic two or three years ago. "It may have dropped down a notch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ranking Colleges by &#8220;Economic Diversity&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.johnleo.com/2009/12/15/ranking-colleges-by-economic-diversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to show which colleges are reaching out to low-income students, U.S. News &#38; World Report has published "economic diversity" rankings of American colleges and universities. That sounds ambitious, but the rankings are based solely on the percentage of students at each institution who receive federal Pell grants, which mostly go to applicants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Anti-Israel Campus Conference?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnleo.com/2009/10/13/an-anti-israel-campus-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speakers who defended Zionism were often jeered and hackled ]]></description>
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		<title>A SHORT Guide to College Guides</title>
		<link>http://www.johnleo.com/2009/10/13/a-short-guide-to-college-guides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it matter which college guide a high-school student consults? Yes indeed. They all differ in poundage, cost and frankness. To illustrate the various approaches, and the various levels of candor, here are five guides discussing one school, Wesleyan University of Middletown, Connecticut:
Barron's Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges is the driest of the guides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberals for Free Speech at UNC</title>
		<link>http://www.johnleo.com/2009/09/22/liberals-for-free-speech-at-unc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The script is almost always the same: a campus conservative group invites a speaker who opposes illegal immigration; angry leftist students  denounce him as a white supremacist and shout him down, knocking over tables or breaking a window; the president or chancellor of the university promises to investigate, but no penalty descends on the censors.
      [...]]]></description>
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