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‘USA Today’ on FIREand the Mohammed Cartoons
USA Today this morning features , noted columnist and member of ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s Board of Advisors, discussing the Danish Mohammed cartoon controversy on America’s campuses. In the article, “‘Free speech’ cries ring hollow on college campuses and beyond,†Hentoff focuses on shameful instances of censorship at Minnesota’s Century College and at New York University—both cases in which FIREwas involved. The column is particularly timely in light of FIRE’s letter to NYU yesterday asking President John Sexton to publicly repudiate the university’s censorship of a discussion about the cartoons and to live up to the university’s promises of freedom of expression.
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