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Posted: Sunday, February 2, 2014 6:07 pm | Updated: 11:30 am, Fri Apr 11, 2014.

For the sixth year in a row, the University of Cincinnati kept its reputation for restricting free speech and it isn’t the only university labeled so, according to an annual report released by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

UC fell in the 59 percent of 427 universities that “maintain policies that seriously infringe upon students’ speech rights.”

The problem at UC lies with the university’s definition of sexual harassment, said Samantha Harris, director of policy research at FIRE.

“Sexual harassment refers to behavior on the basis of sex, is not welcome, is personally offensive, debilitates morale, and interferes with the work or academic effectiveness of its victims,” Harris said. “Because of the ‘or’ in this clause, this definition is extraordinarily broad, encompassing any behavior on the basis of sex that another person finds offensive.”

Each of the universities that FIRE analyzed received one of three possible ratings — UC received the worst possible ranking — based on the universities’ policies regarding free speech.

This is not the first time UC’s free speech policies have come under fire.

In 2012, UC’s free speech policy — which limited demonstrations and protests to 0.1 percent of UC’s main campus, and required coordinators to submit a request 10 business days ahead of an event — was ruled unconstitutional by a federal district judge.

Fei Wang, second-year accounting student and international, feels that international students don’t have an equal voice on campus.

“It feels like anything an international student says would be more powerful if a non international student said it,” Wang said.

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1 comment:

  • glen posted at 7:42 pm on Tue, Feb 4, 2014.

    glen Posts: 2

    If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth, right? the Democrats' great accomplishment is producing the political equivalent of a Rodney King video, clearly demonstrating the lies of the right, the right Hilary Clinton correctly identified as a vast conspiracy. Confirm by examining Central District of California Cases, 01-4340, 03-9097, 08-5515, 10-5193, US Tax Court 12000-07L --though I think you want to view my US Tax Court Appeal to the 9th Circuit for a good account of their day to day assaults, a few month time slice indicative of a decade of assault, and 9th Circuit case 11-56043.
    Typically operating through puppets--including puppets in the judiciary--the right wing has for decades been committing crimes and trying to classify them to cover them up, a move explicitly forbidden by the Code of Federal Regulations. The right has accomplished its political objectives by presenting a fraction of the evidence to judicial officials who, having seen the pattern dozens of times before, could not help but realize that they were being presented with incomplete and inaccurate information. With either the willfully blind approval or the willful ignorance of the judiciary the right has killed & stolen several of my pets and routinely shoot energy weaponry at me and my pets, despite my calls to the police, the FBI, Congress, and despite my petitions in court. There is really only one solution, and that's to disempower them politically.

     

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