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Age ~ J. S. Mill and a Warning to Colleges ~ How the Road to Censorship Is Always Paved with Good Intentions ~ The Acceptance of Censorship by College Students ~ A Personal Aside: How Multiculturalism Demands Free Speech ~ What High School Students (and Parents) Need to Know before They Go to College

CHAPTER 2

       Opening the College Brochure

PC Went to War with Free Speech in the 1990s, and Free Speech Lost ~ Hidden Speech Codes, Everywhere ~ What Harassment Is Supposed to Mean ~ A Short Selection of Examples of Abuses of Harassment Codes on Campus ~ The Department of Education Muddies the Waters ~ The Harm of Campus Speech Codes That Are “Just on the Books” ~ The “Silent Classroom” ~ Speech Codes, Juan Williams, and the Danger of Honest Talk

CHAPTER 3

       The College Road Trip

Quarantining Free Speech ~ Four Factors That Work against Campus Free Speech ~ The Price of Bureaucracy and Hyperregulation ~ An Opportunity for Free Speech on Campus?

       CHAPTER 4

       Harvard and Yale

      All Is Not Well at Harvard and Yale ~ Yale’s About-Face on Free Speech ~ Fraternities at Yale Make Matters Worse for Free Speech ~ Harvard’s Surprising Cluelessness about Free Speech and Free Minds ~ Pledging Yourself to Oversimplifying Moral Philosophy at Harvard ~ Larry Summers, and How Playing with Ideas Teaches Us to Talk Like Grownups

       CHAPTER 5

       Welcome to Campus!

      Disorientation ~ Residence Life: From Hall Monitors to Morality Police ~ The University of Delaware “Treatment” ~ “Us versus Them”: The Culture War as Hero Narrative

       CHAPTER 6

       Now You’ve Done It! The Campus Judiciary

      The Student Judiciary and the Criminalization of Everything ~ Violations of Due Process and Free Speech Often Go Hand in Hand ~ Michigan State University’s Surreal Inquisition Program ~ Campus Justice and Sexual Assault ~ Step One of Doing Away with Due Process in Sex Cases: Redefine Normal Human Interaction as an Offense ~ Step Two: Lower Due Process Protections (or, How the Federal Government Isn’t Helping) ~ What’s at Stake: A Due Process Cautionary Tale out of Ohio ~ Campus Justice and Unlearning the “Spirit of Liberty”

       CHAPTER 7

       Don’t Question Authority

      Oh Yeah, We Actually Meant DON’T Question Authority ~ Campus Authoritarianism versus Sci-Fi Fans ~ Facebook and the Risks of Online Dissent ~ War at Peace College and the Spamification of Dissent ~ Swear at Your Own Risk (a.k.a. Skip This Section If You Can’t Abide Cussing) ~ How State Governments (Often) Aren’t Helping ~ Colleges Need to Teach Students to Question Authority, if Only for Their Own Good: The Penn State Child Rape Scandal

       CHAPTER 8

       Student Activities Fair

      Stifling Freedom of Association on Campus ~ Theater Club ~ Campus Christians ~ Contrast: The Muslim Students Association at Louisiana State University ~ Young Americans for Freedom at Central Michigan University and Hostile Takeovers ~ Christian Legal Society v. Martinez ~ The Campus Lesbian and Gay Association, and Tolerance for All ~ The Fallout from Martinez: San Diego State and Vanderbilt ~ From PETA to Guns: More Causes That Can Land You in Trouble on Campus ~ Unlearning How to Live with Each Other

       CHAPTER 9

       Finally, the Classroom!

      Mandatory Assumptions and Pleasant Little Lies ~ Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and Ward Churchill ~ Mandatory Lobbying for Progressive Causes ~ The Limits of “Social Justice” Advocacy ~ “Dispositions” and Political Litmus Tests ~ “So, Are You SURE I Can Write Whatever I Want in This Assignment?” ~ Teaching Censorship by Example

       CHAPTER 10

       If Even Your Professor Can Be Punished for Saying the Wrong Thing…

      Learning on Eggshells: The Hindley Case at Brandeis ~ Culture Wars, Censorship, and the Professoriate ~ Not Letting the Cases Blur Together: The Very Real Consequences of Censorship on Campus ~ The Outrage Culture, from the Campus to the Real World

       CHAPTER 11

       Student Draftees for the Culture War

      Students Destroying Student Newspapers ~ Student Government Gone Wild ~ The “Irvine 11”: Misunderstanding Free Speech ~ Student Censorship of the Right ~ “I Believe in Free Speech … Except When I Don’t Like It”: Students Come to Expect Protection from Free Speech ~ Infecting the Law Schools and Infecting the Law ~ “Bullying,” the “Blame Free Speech First” Attitude, and What It Means for All of Our Liberties

       CONCLUSION

       Unlearning Liberty and the Knee-Jerk Society

       AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       NOTES

       INDEX

INTRODUCTION

       The Dangerous Collage

      IN THE SPRING OF 2007, Valdosta State University took vigorous action against an undergraduate student it believed was a “clear and present danger” to campus. What had Hayden Barnes, a decorated paramedic in his early twenties, done to terrify the VSU community? He had publicly protested the decision by the university’s president, Ronald Zaccari, to build two parking garages on campus. Believing that the $30 million price tag was an exorbitant expenditure ($15,000 per parking space) and that more environmentally friendly parking options were available, he had written a letter to the editor of the student newspaper and contacted members of the board of regents to voice his objections, politely, by all accounts.¹

      One of his protests—and a very broad definition of protest is necessary—was a collage depicting the dangers he believed the parking garages

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