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   5/11/23 – Is free speech under fire on college campus? The Foundation for   
   Individual Rights and Expression – or FIRE – says yes.   
      
   "The students that I hear from that are pro-censorship that want certain   
   ideas censored on campus," said Alex Morey, FIRE's director for campus   
   rights advocacy. "They're good people, and they care about these issues.   
   They care about things like racism and bigotry – an easy thing to look at   
   and say, well, censorship is going to be what stops it."   
      
   FIRE is non-partisan and says their mission is to protect individual   
   rights regardless of political leaning. Morey said the key to maintaining   
   free speech is to engage with people of varying ideas rather than   
   censoring them.   
      
   "The worst thing that colleges can do for students is lean in to that   
   victim mentality, lean into the idea that you're right, you're not capable   
   of having this conversation. We're going to protect you," said Morey.   
      
   MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE PROGRAM ENDS THE USE OF THE WORD ‘FIELD': 'MAY HOLD   
   NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS'   
      
   FIRE recently ranked Georgetown University among the top universities for   
   censorship after a law school lecturer, Ilya Shapiro, was put on leave for   
   criticizing President Biden's Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.   
   Shapiro tweeted that Biden picked a "lesser black woman," and posted a   
   poll asking if Biden was racist and sexist for saying he'd only select a   
   Black woman. was put on leave for over 100 days in 2022, and was later   
   reinstated, but decided to quit.   
      
   Georgetown Law School responded to FOX's inquiry about the incident in a   
   statement saying that Shapiro was put on paid leave while the university's   
   Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action looked   
   at the incident. The Office of Human Resources also looked into the tweets   
   to see if they violated professional misconduct.   
      
   "Georgetown Law remains committed to preserving and protecting the right   
   of free and open inquiry, deliberation, and debate," the school wrote in   
   their statement. "We have an equally compelling obligation to foster a   
   campus community that is free from bias and in which every member is   
   treated with respect and courtesy, and will always strive toward both of   
   these indispensable goals."   
      
   FOX spoke with Georgetown students who said they feel comfortable   
   expressing their view point, but some acknowledged their viewpoint is in   
   line with the majority of students.   
      
      
      
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