Some colleges may choose to stop funding all activities
By Philip Walzer and Esther Diskin, June 30, 1995
The University of Virginia misinterpreted the First Amendment and violated students’ right to free speech when it denied funding to a Christian magazine, the Supreme Court decided Thursday in a 5-4 vote.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy,
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USA Today, February 27, 1995
Ronald Rosenberger wanted the University of Virginia to pay $ 5,900 to print his monthly Christian student magazine, called Wide Awake.
“I had dreams of starting a national network of Christian student magazines,” says the non-denominational evangelical. “I wanted to train young Christians how to
Read More → Posted in NewsOfficials cite Columbia Union’s ties to Seventh-day Adventist Church
By Jon Jeter
The Washington Post, December 14, 1994
Maryland education officials have turned down a request from a Takoma Park college for state aid, contending that the school’s close ties to the Seventh-day Adventist Church make it ineligible for government funding.
The decision this
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By Donald P. Baker
The Washington Post, November 25, 1994
It was a short-lived effort by three University of Virginia students to put out a magazine with an evangelical Christian viewpoint, a publication that died after four issues.
But now, nearly four years after the university
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By Jeremy Rabkin
The Wall Street Journal, October 19, 1994
By 1693, when the hysteria finally subsided in Salem village, 19 people had been hanged on witchcraft charges. A dozen years later, the young girl who had triggered the witch hunt made a public confession: Her tales of satanic spells,
Read More → Posted in NewsThe New Republic. On September 7 Deval Patrick, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, filed a brief in a New Jersey case...
Read More → Posted in NewsBy William H. Honan
The New York Times, September 17, 1994
A Federal judge found yesterday that the University of New Hampshire acted wrongly when it suspended a professor for sexual harassment after seven female students complained about comments he had made during a writing class.
The judge, Shane Devine of Federal District
Read More → Posted in NewsHUD investigating 3 residents for bias against mentally ill in remarks, letters protesting projects
By Susan Ferriss
The San Francisco Examiner, July 22, 1994
Berkeley, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement, is rocking again, ’90s style.
Free-speech advocates are outraged that federal officials are investigating three Berkeley residents for alleged discriminatory behavior, based
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