UNC recieves low rating for levels of free speech protection

UNCs free speech policy ratings have gone from bad to worse, marking the University as among the most suppressive studied.

Robert Shibley, senior vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, delivered a lecture on free speech rights to commemorate Constitution Day. The speech was hosted by UNC Young Americans for Liberty.

Shibley said UNC is labeled a red light university by FIRE, which rates universities levels of free speech protection.

In 2010, UNC received a yellow light rating from FIRE.

FIRE defines a red light school as one that has at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.

Administrators want free speech advocates to feel alone on campus, Shibley said.

You are not. America is with you.

FIRE reports that of the 400 major universities it reviews, 65 percent are red light schools and 29 percent are yellow light schools.

Shibley said that UNCs Community Living Standards policy has broad definitions that may extensively limit students speech.

The policy states that it is a students responsibility to avoid using the written or spoken word in a way that demeans, defames, offends, slanders or discriminates.

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UNC recieves low rating for levels of free speech protection