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Jan 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Hmm ... @babson told the @nytimes that Phansey was a staff member, not a professor. nyti.ms/2RQxe5M

Here's a screengrab of Babson's course catalogue for this semester from before he was fired:

thefire.org/babson-college…
@babson @nytimes Babson itself described Phansey as a faculty member — until it began scrubbing its website to delete mentions of his name. Unfortunately for them, Google’s cache kept copies of the pages it was deleting.
@babson @nytimes For example, here’s an April 19 profile on @Babson’s site, now memory-holed:

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@babson @nytimes To recap, Babson College has, so far, issued misleading public statements implying that there was an active law enforcement investigation and falsely claimed a faculty member was not a faculty member — all while refusing to stick by its public commitment to freedom of expression.

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May 14
The University of Texas at San Antonio reportedly banned student protestors from:

• Using the words ‘Zionism’ and ‘Israel’;

• Chanting "From the river to the sea;"

• Speaking in Arabic.

It's unconstitutional censorship, plain and simple.

FIRE wrote @UTSA to demand that it reassure students that the First Amendment protects these words, phrases, and languages.

A public university should jump at the chance to show its commitment to the First Amendment, but UTSA ignored us.

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2/ UTSA appeared on FIRE’s radar after reports indicated an administrator directed pro-Palestinian protestors to avoid using terms officials deemed “antisemitic hate speech,” apparently in an attempt to abide by Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 27 Executive Order.
3/ The gov’s EO directs Texas state universities to provide evidence they’re addressing anti-Semitism on campus. It specifically mentions certain phrases — like “From the river to the sea” — that the UTSA administrator later cited as examples of “antisemitic hate speech.”
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May 7
Dartmouth’s president will work with officials to drop all charges against two student journalists arrested last week while covering campus protests.

FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative, the @SPLC, and more than a dozen press-rights organizations wrote a coalition letter to Dartmouth earlier this afternoon condemning the arrests.Image
2/ “[A]rresting journalists engaged in legitimate newsgathering sets a dangerous precedent, harms the public’s right to know, and defies Dartmouth’s commitments to students’ expressive and press rights,” FIRE’s coalition letter said.Image
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3/ We’re grateful to the following organizations who joined FIRE and the SPLC in defending these student journalists’ rights:

College Media Association
Committee to Protect Journalists
Defending Rights & Dissent
Freedom of the Press Foundation
National Press Club
National Press Club Journalism Institute
National Press Photographers Association
PEN America
Radio Television Digital News Association
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Society of Environmental Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists
Women Press Freedom
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Apr 19
🧵: A Berkeley bash turned into a constitutional clash when students attending a private dinner party transformed the event into a protest, sparking debate over the limits of First Amendment freedoms.

Luckily, FIRE knows something about the 1A 🔥
thefire.org/news/no-berkel…
2/ And so did the host. @UCBerkeleyLaw dean Erwin Chemerinsky is a staunch free speech advocate and renowned 1A scholar.
3/ Like any principled free speech advocate, Chemerinsky defended his critics’ 1A rights to express their views—even when students attacked him on campus with posters he described as “blatant anti-Semitism.”
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Apr 17
We watched today’s congressional hearing on anti-Semitism: Here are our big takeaways:

Columbia’s leaders told lawmakers they’re investigating or have already disciplined multiple students and faculty for what appears to be speech protected by the university’s policies and commitments. FIRE is looking into these alarming revelations.

As always, FIRE will defend any student or professor investigated or punished for simply exercising their right to free expression or academic freedom. 🧵
2/ Columbia’s leaders said calls for genocide would violate university policy. But there are good reasons why the First Amendment — and Columbia’s substantially similar free speech promises — generally protect even “calls for genocide.”

Find out why: thefire.org/news/why-most-…
3/ The First Amendment permits political rhetoric and even general advocacy of violence, so long as it doesn’t cross the line into unlawful conduct or unprotected speech like incitement, discriminatory harassment, or true threats.

These well-defined, narrow exceptions protect individuals from immediate threats to their physical safety while avoiding restrictions on dissenting or unpopular speech.
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Mar 13
When protestors tried shouting down an Israeli prof’s lecture at @unlv, campus police erroneously claimed they couldn’t remove the disruptors. So they canceled the event instead, free speech be damned.

This “heckler’s veto” has no place at a public university bound by the 1A.Image
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2/ A physics department lecture by @ubarilan Professor Asaf Peer at @unlv quickly turned into a shouting match when protestors entered the venue and began yelling about Peer’s ties to Israel, accusing him of supporting genocide.
jpost.com/breaking-news/…
3/ When campus police and admin arrived, they canceled the event rather than address the disruption, claiming they couldn’t remove the hecklers. Peer never felt unsafe and sought to continue, yet the officials still cut short the event.
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Dec 20, 2023
🧵: In every crisis is an opportunity.

As confidence in higher ed reaches historic lows, it is time for campus leaders to re-establish their institutions as communities devoted to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge.

Here’s where they should start ⬇️
1. Stay true to the college’s mission

The search for knowledge is at the center of higher education’s purpose.

When controversy strikes, institutions must reflect on their truth-seeking mission and use it to ground their response. College leaders who stray from their institution’s mission and try to please everybody, please nobody.
2. Protect free speech in policy

For knowledge generation to occur, free speech and academic freedom must flourish.

Colleges must cultivate an environment where students and faculty are free to “think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” This freedom is essential to root out error, confirm truth, and establish trust.

Public colleges, as government actors, are bound to protect free speech and academic freedom under the First Amendment, while private colleges should look to the First Amendment’s wisdom in drafting their policies.
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