Why It Is Wrong to Harangue a Captive Audience at Graduation

BY STEVEN LUBET Steven Lubet is Williams Memorial Professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. University graduation addresses are famously bland, featuring acknowledgements and congratulations, perhaps leavened with benign humor, balanced with vague calls to public service, and rounded off with sunny assurances of a bright future. If not exactly an art form,…

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NYU AAUP Statement on Steven Thrasher Case

BY THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The AAUP is not solely a faculty organization. It exists to protect the speech of all members of the academic community, and it must speak in defense of student voices, who are among the most vulnerable, and often the most subject to censure from university administrators.…

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