Freedom of speech is a fundamental right guaranteed under the Virginia Constitution, the First Amendment of the US Bill of Rights and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But freedom of speech is often not recognized in the one place where it ought to be respected the most: A college campus in the [...]
Bulletin boards have become a battleground at Radford University in Radford, Va., with students claiming university policies restrict their First Amendment rights. The policy in question requires university approval for any flier students wish to hang on campus bulletin boards. Over the past semester, journalism professor Bill Kovarik has led a small movement called [...]
Students in the First Amendment and Higher Education class are bearing flyers, a hard-hitting message and symbolically wearing red duct tape over their mouths, and have been rallying with faculty and other involved and driven students with the campaign they call “RU Speechless.”
To protest Radford University policies restricting freedom of speech on campus, students and faculty rallied outside the Hurlburt student on May 1, 2013. With the Faculty Senate, the Council of Deans and the Student Government Association all demanding reform of RU’s archaic prior restraint policies, and legal analysis showing clear faults in the policies, the [...]
Here’s one suggestion: If the bulletin board space is so crowded at RU that it has to be censored, then why not expand the opportunities to post bulletins without censorship? Details on the RUspeechless Facebook page. They would only cost a few hundred dollars each. And here’s what an outdoor bulletin board would look like. [...]
On a spring day in Lexington, Va., fraternity row openly sports Greek letters without any apparent unease from town officials. In fact, two of these houses are across the street from the police station. The “animal house” fraternity is around the corner. Just how similar signs might — in some imaginary universe — represent a [...]
This is the American Association of University Professors flyer which The First Amendment / Higher Education class did not create. However, who would argue that the AAUP does not have every right to create and distribute this flyer on campus? Is it overstated? Obviously. But sometimes that’s the point of the “vehement, caustic, and sometimes [...]
This is a video our media group composed. We interviewed many students at RU and asked 3 simple questions: 1. What is the 1st amendment? 2. What does it mean to you? 3. Do you feel restricted at RU? Please feel free to share your opinions on our debates and comments pages! Coms 460 Interviews
Andrew Kloster, a legal colleague at the Heritage Foundation, gives good advice to students about their First Amendment rights. Speaking to students on a university in Oklahoma Kloster addresses many issues with colleges restricting Free Speech. Read more at
Kentucky has recently been consider a risk for free speech on campus. It has gotten a “yellow” raiting which is one away from a bad rating. The student organizations decided to organize and build a free speecch wall on campus. Read More at
March 27, 2013 Good news from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Governor Bob McDonnell has signed a new law that champions the American tradition of pluralism by safeguarding the freedom of association of Virginia’s public college and university students. Virginia has only become the 2nd state to pass such a law since the Supreme Court of the United [...]
Hilarious moment during the protest.
May 1st Protest!
Here's the flyer that's going around campus:
WHY RU IS WRONG
ON FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES
• Bulletin boards: Students are not allowed..
Check out our interview video. We asked 3 simple questions to RU students about freedom of speech.
1. What is the first amendment?
2. What does..
