One year after becoming embroiled in a national debate over "safe spaces" from offensive speech, Brown University students and faculty received a crash course of sorts on freedom of speech and its relationship to the academic mission of a liberal arts college.
On Thursday, the Political Theory Project hosted lectures by Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a first amendment and civil liberties advocacy group, and Stanley Fish, an English scholar and law professor at the Cardozo School of Law who has famously questioned the concept of freedom of speech on campus.
STATE HOUSE — With seven weeks until Election Day, registered Massachusetts voters can expect to find a red booklet in their mailboxes in the coming days that will detail each of the four ballot questions they will face in the voting booth.
As required by the state Constitution, Secretary of State William Galvin this week began mailing voter information booklets to all registered voters in the state. The booklet includes the full text of each of the four ballot questions, a summary of each question as prepared by the attorney general, pro and con statements from question supporters and opponents, the one-sentence statement that will accompany the question on the ballot, and other voting information.
