Word: free-speech
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...case that echoes former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ 2006 resignation, the College of William and Mary’s Board of Visitors ousted President Gene R. Nichol last week, ending a tenure that featured several free-speech controversies. In response, Nichol announced his immediate resignation and accused the board of making a politically motivated decision and of offering him a bribe—allegations that the board expressly denied in a statement. Similarly, Summers’ defenders characterized his ouster as a breach of academic freedom of speech, while his detractors often cited his adversarial leadership style...
Former member of the Dutch Parliament, free-speech activist and author of the memoir Infidel...
...they want the law to change. They write or join dissenting or concurring opinions - like the one in this case, or the one that calls for reversing Roe v. Wade in April's decision upholding the federal partial birth abortion ban, or the one by Thomas that opposes free-speech rights for students in the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case - and all of them advocate a fundamental shift to the right in constitutional law, even when it means overturning precedent...
...concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas says he is all for this, but he comes at the issue from left field or, more accurately, from somewhere in the 18th century. Thomas plays the crotchety schoolmarm, proclaiming that students should not have any free-speech rights in school. In the good old days, he writes, "teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order." Spare the rod, he concludes, and spoil that little dickens Joseph Frederick...
...shock jock of international politics - as he demonstrated in the U.N. General Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new alternative Latin American television network, Telesur - and has left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition networks, RCTV...