It’s a vicious cycle. We get it, and so does ASI. But it highlights an infringement on the candidates’ right to free speech, the right to speak with a newspaper and have their words distributed to a wider audience.
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Mustang Minute: freedom of speech display on Dexter Lawn
Christina Favuzzi The Cal Poly Republicans Club has built a fake Berlin Wall on Dexter Lawn where students have the opportunity to express their thoughts and opinions. “Looking over this, some of these things, they offend me, they will offend people and it’s important to note that free speech, it can often be quite offensive,” […]
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Conservatives under attack: Looking into a national trend
Brendan Pringle is an English senior and Mustang Daily conservative columnist. We often think of the university campus as an open forum where students can voice their opinions under full protection of the First Amendment. So it seems. With so many different clubs and organizations on campus representing a diverse range of viewpoints, students rarely […]
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Students get FIREd up for free speech at lecture
The President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Greg Lukianoff, spoke at Cal Poly yesterday about the importance of free speech and students’ first amendment rights while enrolled at a university.
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Complacency not the answer to budget cuts
Leticia Rodriguez is a journalism senior and Mustang Daily editor-in-chief.
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Annual ‘Banned Book Week’ reaches final chapter
Banned Books Week came to its close Oct. 1. The event opened the floor for library patrons to discuss why certain books would be censored and to talk about the ideas that made those books controversial in the first place.
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Fighting Fire with FIRE: Freedom of Speech on Campus
We have all heard the unusual arguments for free speech in situations of burning flags, but we often fail to acknowledge the day-to-day restriction of free speech on college campuses.
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Student advocacy program feared unconstitutional
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education believes that CARE-Net, a program aimed at reducing discrimination on campus, may violate free-speech laws.