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BOSTON – Three prestigious Massachusetts colleges were singled-out for stifling free speech on campus over the past year, earning them "muzzles" from the Thomas Jefferson Center. Amherst College, Harvard University and Williams College were among 50 U.S. schools that curtailed students' First Amendment rights in 2015, drawing
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HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College sorority, hit by protests that a May 2015 Kentucky Derby party was racist and a symbol of oppression, elected to pull the plug on this year's event. The sisters of Kappa Delta Epsilon voted overwhelmingly to ditch the celebration after talking to
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A satirist went to Yale University recently to stage what may be a revealing spoof on campus, posing as an activist and asking passersby to sign a petition to repeal the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution – more than 50 did. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz appears in
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CAMBRIDGE – Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow wants a special committee of faculty and students to gather views on whether the school's seal, which features imagery from the family crest of a slaveholder benefactor, should be changed. Minow announced the panel's members and its purpose
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PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt a fatal roundhouse blow to the school's longtime connection to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. and the prestigious university's 13th
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