Tag: first amendment
UC, it’s time to stand up and protect your students, faculty...
On Monday, April 7, 2025, Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced that the federal government had revoked six international student visas from the University of...
Op-Ed: The Highlander newsroom could use a union
James Anderson is a lecturer and freelance journalist who is from Illinois but now resides in Riverside, California. He has taught labor studies as...
Texas aims to pass House Bill 1927, which may allow open...
The First Amendment and issues regarding gun control remain a prominent issue of debate in the United States, and the popularity of this issue...
Censoring is not the answer — penalizing is
Republican Senator Ted Cruz consistently finds himself facing controversy, this time saying that he believes Democrats want “illegal aliens” and “child molesters'' to vote....
America’s First Amendment is what sets it apart from the rest...
Neal Boortz, former attorney and popular radio host famously said, “Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no...
Blackface vs. critical tweets: California universities are struggling to balance free...
It’s clear that there is a certain unevenness in how “freedom of speech” is defined, regarded and respected at public universities when it comes...
UC free speech center’s inaugural group must protect 1st Amendment
Perhaps free speech isn’t in a crisis but it is certainly in limbo — especially at California’s public universities. In the past year we...
United Community of Riverside: First Amendment Remedies
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of...
Editorial: ‘Free speech zones’ mock free speech
The average temperature at UC Santa Barbara in the month of April is exactly 69 degrees Fahrenheit — not too hot, and not too...
Civil rights versus civil liberties
Recently, free speech was on the chopping block at UC campuses across the state. At the direction of President Mark Yudof, the President’s...