PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: A Philadelphia-based foundation that monitors free speech issues at colleges across the country claims that more than half of 400 plus colleges and universities it surveyed this year have adopted restrictive codes that violate First Amendment guarantees to free speech…
Penn State, which reviewed policies involving sexual misconduct following the Jerry Sandusky scandal, revised its sexual harassment policy and expanded it to include “verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is unwanted, inappropriate, or unconsented to.”
FIRE officials said the language is so encompassing that a single off-color joke or comment could rise to the level of sexual harassment if anyone finds it inappropriate… (more)
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