Theft and Defacing of Campus Newspapers is Censorship

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Last week the AAUP, the College Media Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and the Student Press Law Center issued a report on “Threats to the Independence of Student Media,” which cited multiple cases in which college and university administrations exerted pressure in attempts to control, edit, or censor student journalistic…

More on the Oakland Fire Tragedy

BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday I posted to this blog “The Oakland Fire Tragedy and Higher Education,” in which I tried to describe some of the economic factors that have compelled so many young artists and others in the Bay Area to live in often illegally converted warehouses and similar spaces while authorities turned a blind…

The Oakland Fire Tragedy and Higher Education

BY HANK REICHMAN I first learned of the horrible fire that on Friday night destroyed a live-work warehouse in Oakland, California, claiming 36 lives, early the next morning when I turned on my smartphone.  A bulletin informed me that nine had already been found dead at an electronic dance music (EDM) “rave” held in the…