Brown examines relationship of free speech to academic mission

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

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…