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DePaul University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Website: http://www.depaul.edu
Type: Private
Federal Circuit: 7th Circuit
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DePaul University: Administrator Bars Use of "Gay Lives Matter"
August 17, 2018
A DePaul administrator barred a student group from using the slogan "Gay Lives Matter" because it would "simply be co-opting another movements approach."» Read More
DePaul University: DePaul Continues to Impose 'Speech Tax' on Student Expression
September 26, 2016
DePaul University has continued to impose exorbitant security fees on student organizations because of the perceived controversial nature of their expression despite the concerns FIRE raised on September 8, 2016.» Read More
DePaul University: In Multiple Acts of Censorship, DePaul Bans Political Chalking and Two Controversial Speakers
September 9, 2016
DePaul prohibited students from chalking partisan messages and then banned two controversial conservative speakers from campus.» Read More
DePaul University: Student Punished For Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display
February 21, 2013
DePaul student Kristopher Del Campo was charged with student conduct violations after he publicly posted the names of students who had vandalized a pro-life display.» Read More
DePaul University: Discrimination against Student Organization
September 30, 2010
In Spring 2010, the student group Students for Cannabis Policy Reform (SCPR) submitted an application for formal recognition at DePaul. After holding up SCPR's application for several months, Director of Student Life Suzanne Kilgannon rejected the group's application on September 15, 2010, stating that recognizing the group "would send an institutional message that [Vice President for Student Affairs James R. Doyle] believes we are not prepared to manage." This denial clearly violated DePaul's promises of freedom of speech and association. After FIRE wrote to DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider on September 30, Doyle defended DePaul's discrimination against SCPR by stating that […]» Read More
DePaul University: Shutdown of Affirmative Action Bake Sale Protest
January 23, 2006
DePaul University acquitted a conservative student group that was charged with harassment for holding an event that satirized affirmative action. Until FIRE intervened, DePaul administrators had been investigating the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) for holding an "affirmative action bake sale" protest. The DCA members were found not guilty of violating the harassment policy, but were found guilty of failing to disclose in advance that the bake sale would be used to protest affirmative action.» Read More
DePaul University: Censorship of Student Group Protesting Ward Churchill
November 23, 2005
A student group that protested a campus appearance by University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill has become DePaul University's latest victim of censorship. FIRE denounced DePaul's Orwellian actions after the university banned its College Republicans from posting flyers protesting Churchill's visit and actually changed its own rules to prevent the organization from attending a workshop that he would be leading. The school issued a formal warning condemning the student group.» Read More
DePaul University: Professor Suspended for Expression Without Due Process
October 8, 2004
DePaul University administrators suspended Professor Thomas Klocek without a hearing after he engaged in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair. When the students complained that they were offended by Klocek, he was denied the rights that DePaul guarantees to professors accused of wrongdoing and immediately suspended. Statements from DePaul administrators indicate that Klocek was disciplined because of his harsh criticism of the students' viewpoint, despite DePaul's stated commitments to free speech and academic freedom. Klocek received a letter confirming his punishment of suspension with pay and further stating that he would be able to teach […]» Read More
Red Light Policies
University Policies and Procedures are Password Protected 09-10
Speech Code Category: Other Speech Codes, Statement
Last updated: June 28, 2002
Guide to Student Housing: Offensive Displays 09-10
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies, StatementDisplays that advertise commercial products/services; advocate the use of alcohol or drugs; are discriminatory;
Last updated: October 28, 2013
unlawfully harass by abusing, assailing, intimidating, demeaning, victimizing, or having the effect of creating a hostile environment
based on any of the protected characteristics in the university's Anti-Discriminatory Harassment Policy (which is available on the university's policies & procedures Web site); or are not otherwise in keeping with the university's mission are prohibited and may be removed at any time.
Student Handbook: Student Rights 09-10
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, StatementStudents have the right to their own ideas, beliefs and political associations. Students have the right to ask questions and express their opinions without affecting their academic evaluations, as long as such do not interfere with the normal operations of their classes or infringe on the rights of other students in their classes.
Last updated: June 28, 2002
Letter to FIRE from President Holtschneider 12/12/05
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression, StatementDePaul University strongly supports free speech [....]
Last updated: October 28, 2013
Conservative activists accuse DePaul of censorship after university bars them from holding event on campus
October 11, 2018
By John Keilman at The Chicago Tribune Two high-profile conservative activists are lambasting DePaul University after administrators barred them from holding an event on campus, the latest chapter in the school's turbulent recent history with right-leaning speakers. Read more here.» Read More
DePaul revises speech policies to promote social justice
June 5, 2017
By Justin Caruso at Campus Reform DePaul University has adopted new guidelines governing "speech and expression" on campus, but First Amendment advocates say the rules subordinate free speech to social justice issues. "We deem free and open expression as essential to intellectual inquiry," the guidelines claim, as well as arguing that it is DePaul's responsibility to have a campus where "a broad and diverse range of ideas can be exchanged civilly and respectfully. . . ." Read more here.» Read More
DePaul restricts access to Muslim Women Matter event critical of forced marriage, genital mutilation
June 2, 2017
By Jennifer Kabbany at the College Fix. DePaul University restricted access to a campus event Thursday evening meant to highlight gender inequality atrocities committed against women in Muslim-majority societies, organizers say. Billed as a "Muslim Women Matter" discussion by student organizers, the June 1 gathering included a screening of "Honor Diaries," which highlights women who battle for the right to an education, religious freedom, and to be freed from practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation. . . . Read more here.» Read More
DePaul University Bans 'Unborn Lives Matter' Posters In Campus
October 25, 2016
By Emily Marks at UniversityHerald DePaul University has banned a poster for the "Unborn Lives Matter" movement in its campus. Apparently, the design of the posters "provokes the Black Lives Matter movement."… Read more here.» Read More
Students 'Appalled' by Catholic University's Decision to Forbid Pro-Life Poster
October 24, 2016
By Garett Haley at Christian News Network The largest Catholic university in the U.S. prevented an on-campus organization from displaying a pro-life poster, suggesting that the message was "provocative" and "hurtful." Read more here.» Read More
One University Asks: How Do You Promote Free Speech Without Alienating Students?
October 23, 2016
By Beth McMurtie at The Chronicle of Higher Education Controversy arrived at DePaul last May sporting dark sunglasses and highlighted hair. Milo Yiannopoulos, a young, gay, and provocative symbol of the alt-right, had been stirring up college students across the country on his "Dangerous Faggot" tour with a mix of anti-feminist barbs, derision of the Black Lives Matter movement, and praise for Donald Trump… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul University Bans 'Unborn Lives Matter' Posters
October 20, 2016
By Tim Ciccotta at Breitbart According to Inside Higher Ed, DePaul University President Dennis H. Holtschneider ordered the College Republicans to redesign their pro-life poster out of concerns that it "provokes the Black Lives Matter movement… Read more here.» Read More
Catholic University Bans 'Unborn Lives Matter' Posters
October 19, 2016
By Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix DePaul University has told the DePaul College Republicans they cannot use pro-life posters stating "Unborn Lives Matter" that mimic the style and design of the Black Lives Matter logo… Read more here.» Read More
Catholic University Bans Pro-Life Posters
October 17, 2016
By Amanda at The Daily Wire DePaul University is back at it again, censoring more conservative voices… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul University Under Fire For Charging Student Organizations To Pay Up For 'Free Speech'
September 28, 2016
By Emily Marks at UniversityHerald DePaul University is currently facing backlash for charging political student groups with fees for hosting discussion and lecture events. It has been referred to as "free speech tax," which is the unusual amount of money that the school has subjected student organizations during the planning of said events… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul University Forcing Student Organizations to Pay for 'Free Speech'
September 27, 2016
By Tim Ciccotta at Breitbart Administrators at DePaul University are facing complaints from the community after setting a precedent of charging political student groups unusual fees for hosting discussion and lecture events… Read more here.» Read More
Not Even Socialists Are Safe from Catholic University's Censorship of Student Speech
September 26, 2016
By Greg Piper at The College Fix If you're like me, you first watched Robert De Niro become a socialist priest in The Mission (released 30 years ago) in history class, and assumed going forward that all Jesuits were socialists… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul University Shuts Out Ben Shapiro, and Free Speech – Where Are the Trustees?
August 3, 2016
By Eric M. Bledsoe at National Review Las week, DePaul University banned conservatives commentator Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus. "Given the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time," Bob Janis, the university's vice president of facilities operations, wrote an e-mail to the executive board of the DePaul chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, which sponsored Shapiro's planned appearance. See the article by John Minster, vice chairman of DePaul's Young Americans for Freedom chapter, in the Daily Wire. […]» Read More
Progressive Policing of Speech Moves off Campus
July 19, 2016
By Wendy Kaminer at Minding the Campus "Hate speech is excluded from protection," CNN anchor Chris Cuomo tweetedlast year, echoing a dangerously common misconception. "Hate speech isn't free speech," people say, assuming they have a right not to hear whatever they consider hateful language and ideas. Government officials sometimes share this view: The Mayor of West Hollywood confirmed to Eugene Volokh that she would not issue a special events permit for a Donald Trump rally so long as he trafficked in hate, contrary to the "values and ideals" of the West Hollywood community… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul bans Milo Yiannopolous, Calling him 'Dangerous'
July 11, 2016
By Aubree Poole at Red Alert Politics Milo Yiannopolous has been banned from delivering a second speech at DePaul University, prompting campus Republicans to explore legal recourse. The school administrators denied the College Republican group's request to host the Breitbart tech editor for a second time… Read more here.» Read More
Milo Yiannopoulos Banned from DePaul University for Creating 'Hostile Environment' During May Speech
July 7, 2016
By Jessica Chasmar at The Washington Times Gay conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from giving a second speech at DePaul University after officials determined his "inflammatory" rhetoric during his last appearance created a "hostile environment" on campus… Read more here.» Read More
When Protests Obstruct Free Speech
May 26, 2016
By Ellen Wexler at Inside Higher Ed Sitting on the stage at DePaul University Tuesday, Milo Yiannopoulos spoke without incident for around 15 minutes, offering his trademark inflammatory criticisms of feminism, the transgender rights movement and campus politics. And then the conversation turned to microaggressions… Read more here.» Read More
The Battle Against 'Hate Speech' on College Campuses Gives Rise to a Generation that Hates Speech
May 26, 2016
By Nina Burleigh at Newsweek During his 18 years as president of Lebanon Valley College during the middle of the past century, Clyde Lynch led the tiny Pennsylvania liberal arts institution through the tribulations of the Great Depression and World War II, then raised $550,000 to build a new gymnasium before he died in 1950. In gratitude, college trustees named that new building after him… Read more here.» Read More
'The Chalkening' of Trump: Terror Grows on Campuses
April 18, 2016
By Bob Unruh at World Net Daily On university campuses, where many enthusiastic students vote for the first time, political candidates' slogans typically appear on signs, bumper stickers, T-shirts, placards, dorm-room walls and even in chalk on sidewalks… Read more here.» Read More
DePaul Law Students Dump Trump (Tower)
February 4, 2016
By Karen Sloan at The National Law Journal Like the Iowans who caucused earlier this week, students at DePaul University College of Law have rejected Trump—Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, that is. … Read more here.» Read More
Departments of Education and Justice, 'arguably the biggest free-speech-on-campus story of the year.'
December 27, 2013
by Timothy Dionisopoulos The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has released a list of the worst colleges in the United States for free speech. In an article on the Huffington Post, FIRE listed the top ten most egregious free speech abuses on campus since March of 2012. DePaul University made the list after the school charged conservative student activist Kristopher Del Campo with multiple violations after he published the names of students who admitted to vandalizing the Young Americans for Freedom's pro-life display. Troy University was profiled for their restrictive "harassment" policy, which FIRE claimed "prohibits an astonishing amount of protected speech, including almost […]» Read More
Student punished for publicizing vandal names
March 5, 2013
Kristopher Del Campo's campus group became a victim of vandalism at Chicago's DePaul University when its pro-life display was torn apart and tossed in garbage cans. But it's Del Campo, chairman of the campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, who is being punished by the Catholic institution. For publicizing the names of the vandals, who have admitted their guilt, university officials have charged Del Campo with "disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous behavior to self or others." "Kristopher Del Campo's group was the victim of a politically motivated crime — and yet DePaul University is punishing Del Campo for naming the people […]» Read More
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: DePaul Punishes Student for Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display.
March 2, 2013
"DePaul University has punished a student for publicizing the names of fellow students who admitted to vandalizing his organization's pro-life display. The student, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as 'disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous.' The Foundation for Individual Rights In Education (FIRE) has intervened in his case." University administrators like to characterize anything they don't like as a threat.» Read More
Pro-life student sanctioned at DePaul University for exposing vandals
March 2, 2013
Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the conservative student organization, has been sanctioned by the university after having being charged for violating DePaul's Code of Student Responsibility and found guilty on two counts: Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating, or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others, and Judicial Process Compliance. To mark the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in January, Del Campo, a 23-year old psychology major, and other students were granted permission from the university to build a pro-life display that featured 500 flags. However, vandals destroyed the display and stuffed some of the flags into trash cans. A university investigation released […]» Read More
DePaul student punished for exposing pro-life display vandals
March 1, 2013
Try to follow this logic: Students vandalize a pro-life display at a university, and the student who exposes those behind the crime gets in trouble. That's what happened at DePaul University in Chicago – the nation's largest Catholic university, no less. The student in question, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as "disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous," the Foundation for Individual Rights In Education reports. Del Campo must also complete an "educational project" in the form of a reflection letter. […]» Read More
DePaul punishes student who exposed vandals of memorial for aborted babies
March 1, 2013
Back in January, on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a group of 13 students destroyed a makeshift memorial for aborted babies on the main campus of DePaul University. The display — 500 pink and blue flags — was set up by DePaul's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. (RELATED: Abortion display destroyed on campus) Senior Kristopher Del Campo, who chairs the DePaul YAF chapter, contacted public safety officials after pro-abortion thugs tore the flags from the ground and threw them in trash cans around campus. About a week later, as The Daily Caller reported, Kevin Connolly, an investigator for DePaul's public safety […]» Read More
Pro-life student reportedly threatened with expulsion; and you'll never believe why
February 28, 2013
by Billy Hallowell The Blaze Pro-life students at DePaul University recently erected an anti-abortion display to mark the 40th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case. While they were intent on exercising their free-speech rights, their work was inevitably torn down by other pupils at the school who clearly disagreed with the message. Surprisingly, in the wake of the incident, it's the head of the conservative campus group responsible for assembling the memorial who's now in the hot seat. Kristopher DelCampo, 23, could face potential expulsion for publishing the names of his peers who destroyed the flag display. The […]» Read More
DePaul Punishes Pro-Life Student for Releasing Names of Vandals
February 28, 2013
The head of a conservative student organization at DePaul University has been sanctioned by the university and could be expelled after he released the names of vandals who destroyed a pro-life flag display. Kristopher Del Campo, the chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter, was found guilty by the university on two counts – "Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others" and "Judicial Process Compliance." The charges were a result of posting a copy of the university's incident report on the YAF's website. Click here to read the posting. DePaul University did not return calls seeking comment. Last January […]» Read More
The life of a free speech task force
January 16, 2008
DePaul University, which bills itself as "the Largest Catholic University in America," was described as a "basket case" on a Hannity and Colmes segment because of its questionable "commitment" to free speech. In the past couple of years DePaul has suspended, without due process, a professor who defended Israel. It has created de facto policies to prevent students from posting flyers opposing an on-campus event featuring the plagiarist professor Ward Churchill. It has also shut down a student-run Affirmative Action Bake Sale in which cookies were sold at different prices depending on the customer's skin color because the campus left […]» Read More
DePaul and the Duke Lacrosse Case
February 1, 2007
Aside from their school mascots, there has never been much in common between the Blue Demons of DePaul and the Blue Devils of Duke. About seven years ago Duke beat DePaul in overtime in a memorable game that featured at least six future NBA players. But other than basketball the two schools had little connecting them. Until now, that is. As the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax unravels and the falsely accused students and their families struggle to put their lives back together, a law suit filed against DePaul university by a former adjunct professor may be a cautionary tale for […]» Read More
University presidents battle for honors in spinelessness
May 1, 2006
It's time for this column to announce its Sheldon Award, given annually to the university president who does the most to look the other way when free speech is under assault on campus. As all Sheldon fans know, the prize is a statuette that looks something like the Oscar, except that the Oscar shows a man with no face looking straight ahead, whereas the Sheldon shows a man with no spine looking the other way. The award is named for Sheldon Hackney, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and a modern legend in looking the other way. College presidents, […]» Read More
Fighting Against Political Correctness on Campus
March 1, 2006
FIRE defends student freedoms and fights a university that won't let students protest against a professor who called 9/11 victims 'little Eichmanns' by Dave Eberhart NewsMax Attached Files Fighting Against Political Correctness on Campus, PDF, 838 KB , NewsMax» Read More
Update: DePaul Censures Anti-Affirmative Action Group
February 24, 2006
A conservative student group has been acquitted of a charge that it violated DePaul University's anti-harassment policy when it conducted a protest against affirmative action, the school announced Monday. However, the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) was found guilty of violating the Code of Student Responsibility and censured. In January, the DCA held an "affirmative action bake sale" to mock affirmative action policies in higher education. The protests, which have occurred on other college and university campuses, involve white and Asian students being charged more for baked goods than blacks and Hispanics. The mock bake sales are designed to criticize affirmative […]» Read More
DePaul Investigates Mock Bake Sale for Possible 'Harassment'
February 14, 2006
by Nathan Burchfiel Cybercast News Service A DePaul University bake sale, mocking affirmative action, has exposed the student who organized the sale to an investigation on the grounds that he discriminated against and harassed other students. The Chicago-based school is investigating whether senior Michael O'Shea may have violated the school's anti-discriminatory harassment policy with an "affirmative action bake sale" he organized with the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA). Affirmative action bake sales, in which white and Asian students are charged more for baked goods than blacks and Hispanics, are popular among conservative activists on college campuses. They are designed to criticize […]» Read More
Conservative 'bake sale' causes controversy
January 20, 2006
A newly-founded student organization called the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) held an event dubbed as a bake sale on Tuesday in the Student Center. However, there was the anti-affirmative action message that lay under all the cake and cookies. Michael O'Shea, a senior political science and history student, is one of the founding fathers of the DCA, a member of DePaul College Republicans and organized the event that eventually drew up to 50 people. "It was a protest to spark discourse and have people engage in the topic," said O'Shea. The group set up a table in the Lincoln Park […]» Read More
College Republicans Prevented from Protesting Speaker [Transcript]
January 6, 2006
[This interview aired on the Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes show on Friday, January 6, 2006, at approximately 9:40 p.m. ET.] […] HANNITY: Meanwhile, the College Republicans of DePaul University in Chicago say that the university tried to violate their free speech. The group protested a campus appearance by the controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. But prior to the protest, the university banned the group from posting fliers, and they also changed the rules to prevent the group from attending Churchill's workshop. The college has since lifted their ban, but the question remains: did DePaul censor free […]» Read More
DePaul Under Fire Again For Censoring Free Expression On Campus
January 4, 2006
DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, is being accused of violating the free speech rights of a student group that protested a campus appearance by controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, an often inflammatory speaker who has compared America's 9/11 victims to Nazis. The College Republicans at DePaul claim officials at the Catholic university barred the student organization from putting up posters in protest of a campus lecture and workshop featuring Churchill in October. The school's Office of Student Life reportedly called the group's posters "propaganda," even though the flyers primarily quoted words the controversial speaker himself had said. Robert […]» Read More
DePaul U Confronts Amerikan 'Empire'
January 3, 2006
[…] A few months ago, a speaker of honor hosted at DePaul was none other than Ward Churchill, speaking with open endorsement and support from the DePaul administration. In fact, the administration prohibited the holding of a protest against the Churchill visit by DePaul students. […] DePaul has some bizarre notions about free speech. Its President, Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, publicly defends the employment of Finkelstein as a professor, and defends the operation on campus of a Bash-Israel propaganda show dressed up as an art exhibit. Holtschneider has also publicly celebrated the performance on this Catholic university campus of the […]» Read More
Campus Left to Christians, Conservatives: Shut Up!
December 24, 2005
By Mark Tapscott at Townhall.com Scratch many of the administrators in charge on American campuses these days and you often find a neo-Stalinist who has no hesitation about suppressing views that deviate from leftist orthodoxy. If you doubt me, try supporting Christianity or conservatism in a public way in the ivy covered groves of American academe. Take California State University at San Bernadino, for example, where administrators refuse to charter the Christian Students Association because the group thinks its members should be professing Christians. Imagine that! The group 'would not be required to admit members who did not support the […]» Read More
'I'm not the ideal poster boy'
December 20, 2005
Before he became an unlikely cause celebre, Thomas Klocek was an anonymous foot soldier in the bookish garrison of the ivory tower. The job title may be "adjunct," but their myriad ranks are a bulwark of higher education. They teach the introductory courses the permanent faculty disdains. That frees tenured professors to do research and work with graduate students. It also helps balance the budget. Adjuncts are paid by the course, at academia's equivalent of Wal-Mart wages. At DePaul University, where Klocek long taught, he reached a high of $34,000, one year. Other years, his earnings were $16,000. But he […]» Read More
Letter to the Editor
December 5, 2005
John J. Miller's "Pariahs, Martyrs — and Fighters Back" (Oct. 24) casts some much-needed rays of sunlight on the double standards currently running rampant on our nation's campuses. The academic establishment jealously protects the free speech and academic freedom of the likes of Ward Churchill, but time after time violates the rights of those who don't toe the party line. Prof. Thomas Klocek, a conservative, Kerry-supporting Democrat whose situation Miller examined in detail, was fired from DePaul University for engaging students in a heated discussion about Israel and the Palestinian territories. (He was butting heads with students who compared Israel […]» Read More
Pariahs, Martyrs — and Fighters Back
October 24, 2005
At the start of the last school year, activists at DePaul University set up a pair of tables along a student thoroughfare and distributed literature to passers-by. They caught the eye of faculty member Thomas Klocek, who took one of their handouts and read about Israel's "brutal and murderous occupation" of "Palestine" as well as its "apartheid violence" in the West Bank and Gaza. This was provocative stuff — but nothing out of the ordinary for the two groups behind it all, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and United Muslims Moving Ahead (UMMA). Engaging the students in a discussion […]» Read More
DePaul Dispute Has Blogs Buzzing
May 14, 2005
CHICAGO – A longtime DePaul University instructor who argued with pro-Palestinian students at a campus activities fair last fall no longer works for the school. That much is not in dispute. But why Thomas Klocek lost his job while other professors under fire for their statements kept theirs has created a buzz among conservative-leaning Internet blogs about free speech rights at campuses across the country. John Ruberry, who writes the Marathon Pundit blog, started following the case after Klocek staged a news conference and appeared with his mouth taped shut. "There seems to be kind of a double standard as […]» Read More
A question of decency
April 14, 2005
Chicago's DePaul University, which has taken a couple of hits for its grotesque squashing of a professor's free-speech rights, is hitting back, adding defamatory insult to career-ending injury – and a question comes to mind. It's a question that was asked by the counsel for the Army in 1954 when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was seeking out communists in the government. He threw his charges around with little or no evidence, others in Congress did the same and sometimes reputations were recklessly ruined. In the hearing, McCarthy got tangled with the counsel, Joseph Welch, in suggesting that a young associate of […]» Read More
Academic Freedom For Some
March 4, 2005
When it comes to the basic protections of due process and academic freedom, it often appears that students and professors live in two worlds – one world for those who follow the current academic political orthodoxy and another for those who dissent. Take for example, two untenured professors at major universities, Joseph Massad of Columbia and Thomas Klocek of Depaul. Many FrontPage readers are undoubtedly familiar with Professor Massad. Extensively discussed in the documentary "Columbia Unbecoming" and in national media reports, Professor Massad has been quoted as comparing Israelis to Nazis and Prime Minister Sharon's cultural views to those of […]» Read More
DePaul outside speaker review policy predictably bad on free speech
October 15, 2018
The outside speaker policy at Chicago's DePaul University vests a single DePaul administrator with broad powers to reject any campus speaker based on the content of his or her speech. The policy runs afoul of the free speech promises DePaul makes to its students and faculty. Concerns over DePaul's Student Organization Speaker Review Procedures again came to light last month, when the university rejected a request by the DePaul chapter of Turning Point USA to host an event featuring TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk and the group's communications director Candace Owens on campus on Oct. 16. DePaul told Newsweek that the […]» Read More
UPDATE: After Florida school shooting, 'Worst Colleges for Free Speech' promising high schoolers a right to protest
March 14, 2018
Update: FIRE has tallied the number of colleges and universities that have made statements supporting free speech, based on the list compiled by Chris Peterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology assistant director of undergraduate admissions. Out of the schools in our Spotlight database that made statements on free speech, 61 have a "red light" speech code rating, 93 have a "yellow light" rating, and only 12 have a "green light" rating. Full results can be viewed here. FIRE stands ready to help any university with revising its speech codes. In the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Florida's Marjory […]» Read More
The 10 worst colleges for free speech: 2018
February 12, 2018
Every year, FIRE chooses the 10 worst colleges for free speech — and unfortunately, 2017 left us with plenty of options: Campuses were rocked by violent mob censorship, monitored by bias response teams, plagued by free speech zones, and beset by far too many disinvitation attempts. Although the number of colleges with the most restrictive speech codes has continued to decline, 90 percent of schools still maintain codes that either clearly restrict or could too easily be used to restrict free speech. Today, we present our 2018 list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. As always, our list […]» Read More
FIRE names America's 10 worst colleges for free speech: 2018
February 12, 2018
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12, 2018 — Each year, colleges across the country find dubious ways to silence student and faculty expression. In the last year, administrators became embroiled in litigation for telling a student he couldn't hand out Spanish-language copies of the U.S. Constitution outside a free speech zone, continued a years-long effort to ban a group from campus due to its political viewpoint, and even investigated a professor for a satirical tweet — eventually driving him to resign. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has identified America's 10 worst colleges for free speech, published today with detailed descriptions on […]» Read More
Best of Newsdesk: Censored at DePaul
August 10, 2017
EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is part of FIRE's annual "Best of Newsdesk" retrospective, where we search the archives to bring you stories worth a second look. We hope you'll check out our unique interactive feature on the ongoing censorship crisis at DePaul University, which FIRE first published March 24.» Read More
DePaul rescinds McInnes invitation, extends speaker review policy
May 25, 2017
Last September, FIRE asked, rhetorically, whether DePaul University was "America's worst school for free speech." This month, DePaul has responded with the policy equivalent of "hold my beer." Last Wednesday, DePaul disinvited Gavin McInnes, a writer and comedian who — long after co-founding Vice Media — founded the pro-Trump, anti-antifa "Proud Boys" movement, because of what DePaul's president described as "the encouragement of violence." Then, on Monday, DePaul extended through the end of the academic year a temporary policy it had put into place last fall that requires prior approval of invited speakers by a review board of students, staff, […]» Read More
FIRE Announces America's 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2017
February 22, 2017
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22, 2017—More than 92 percent of American colleges maintain speech codes that either clearly restrict—or could too easily be used to restrict—free speech. Each year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) takes a closer look at campus censorship to identify America's 10 worst colleges for free speech. The 2017 list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech—published today with detailed descriptions at The Huffington Post—includes both public and private institutions. Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment. Private colleges on this list are not required by the Constitution to respect student and […]» Read More
At DePaul, Free Speech Is Out; 'Fee Speech' Is In
September 26, 2016
CHICAGO, September 26, 2016—Speech is free at DePaul University, so long as you're willing to pay for it. That is the regrettable lesson DePaul administrators have taught three separate registered student organizations—the DePaul Socialists, Young Americans for Freedom, and the College Republicans—that sought to exercise their free speech rights on DePaul's campus this year. Each group had to pay exorbitant "security fees"—or speech taxes—to do so because of the content of their message. On Friday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) wrote to DePaul, demanding that it honor the explicit free speech promises it makes to its students […]» Read More
Is DePaul America's Worst School for Free Speech?
September 9, 2016
Every year when FIRE publishes its "Worst Colleges for Free Speech" list, we remind readers that it is not a ranked list, but rather a compilation—in no particular order—of the year's worst free speech offenders. Occasionally, however, we do wonder which college or university would deserve a spot at the top of a ranked list. Yesterday provided such an occasion, as we sent a letter to DePaul University outlining several months of free speech violations spanning multiple incidents and contemplated the university's history of violating its community's expressive rights. DePaul's most recent series of missteps began in April, when students […]» Read More
DePaul Continues to Rail Against Viewpoint Diversity, Bans Ben Shapiro
August 2, 2016
In an article for The Daily Wire, the vice chairman for DePaul University's chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, John Minster, revealed that DePaul's administrators are once again acting as censors, banning another speaker from campus. This time, the school is forcing his group to disinvite conservative commentator Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus. In an email to the group's executive board, DePaul Vice President of Facilities Operations Bob Janis stated security concerns were the reason for not allowing the editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire to speak at the university. Shapiro addressed these concerns last night on The Kelly File, […]» Read More
DePaul Rightly Condemns the 'Heckler's Veto'
May 26, 2016
DePaul University is the latest site of the "heckler's veto" being deployed to shut down a campus speaker. This time, the target was Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative commentator and Breitbart contributor, whose controversial statements on campus issues such as trigger warnings and "hate speech" have been a source of contention on other campuses where he's spoken this year. Fortunately, DePaul's president, Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, has rightly condemned the effort to shut down Yiannopoulous' speech. In a statement, Holtschneider apologized to the campus chapter of the College Republicans, which hosted Yiannopoulous' talk: On behalf of the university, I apologize to the […]» Read More
Media Continues to Report on FIRE's '10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech' List
January 17, 2014
In early January we reported on the coverage that FIRE's list of 2013's worst colleges for free speech received from various local media outlets. Over the past few weeks, the press has continued to draw attention to the nefarious reputation that these schools have developed for violating students' and professors' free speech rights. In North Carolina, which holds the dubious honor of being home to two schools on our 2013 list, both local and student-run newspapers have written about the free speech mistakes made by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and Appalachian State University (ASU). Raleigh newspaper The News & Observer notes that […]» Read More
The 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2013
December 27, 2013
College is where inquisitive minds go to be exposed to new ways of thinking. But on some campuses, the quest for knowledge is frustrated when administrators censor speech they would prefer be kept out of the marketplace of ideas. To close out the year, we at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) want to highlight some of the worst colleges for free speech since March 2012—the last time we published this list. (Our first list, from 2011, is here.) Most of the schools we include in this year's list are public colleges or universities bound by the First Amendment. But some of […]» Read More
Student at IU Attempts to Censor Fellow Students by Vandalizing Pro-Life Display
October 1, 2013
FIRE often exposes how colleges censor students—but last week, it was a student at Indiana University who decided to engage in some vigilante censorship by vandalizing a pro-life display. According to a student account, new student organization Students for Life at IU intended to have a peaceful demonstration on campus as part of an organized protest dubbed the "Planned Parenthood Project." The trouble reportedly began when a student approached the demonstration, removed wooden crosses meant to represent the number of abortions performed daily by Planned Parenthood from the ground, and threw them into a trash can. (The student report includes a photo of this.) […]» Read More
Injustice at DePaul Hits News Outlets Across the Country
March 4, 2013
Last week, FIRE broke the news that DePaul University has sanctioned student Kristopher Del Campo for exposing 13 fellow students who confessed to vandalizing a DePaul Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) pro-life display in late January. Del Campo's story has since made news across the country. In addition to 61 FM and AM radio stations, the following outlets have shared Del Campo's ordeal with their readers: FOX News Radio The Blaze Breitbart.com The Daily Caller The College Fix Instapundit In addition, FIRE's Peter Bonilla appeared on 1210 AM WPHT Radio on Friday afternoon and Saturday. He also spoke with Jason […]» Read More
DePaul Punishes Student for Exposing Vandals of Pro-Life Display
February 28, 2013
CHICAGO, February 28, 2013—DePaul University has punished a student for publicizing the names of fellow students who admitted to vandalizing his organization's pro-life display. The student, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as "disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous." The Foundation for Individual Rights In Education (FIRE) has intervened in his case. "Kristopher Del Campo's group was the victim of a politically motivated crime—and yet DePaul University is punishing Del Campo for naming the people who committed the crime," said FIRE […]» Read More
DePaul Student: Stop Me From Looking at Things I Don't Like!
February 11, 2013
If you're getting a bit too cheery this Monday (unlikely as that may be), please allow me to dampen your spirits with this letter from an anonymous student to The DePaulia, DePaul University's student newspaper, about his or her vandalism of a pro-life display on campus. (It's a big story—if you don't know what I am talking about, take a quick look.) I am going to go through the whole thing because it is such a severe example of "unlearning liberty" that there's an illustration of it in nearly every thought expressed. Let's start: As I was walking to class […]» Read More
Students Admit to Vandalism at DePaul University
February 7, 2013
Just two weeks after we first reported news of student vandalism at DePaul University, school officials have concluded their investigation and released a report on the students involved. As Torch readers may recall, the controversy first began when the campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom erected a pro-life display consisting of 500 small blue and pink flags to mark the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Rather than engage in a debate with their fellow students, several individuals tore up the display and tossed the flags into nearby trash cans. According to the school's report, the named students had […]» Read More
No, Mob-Rule Censorship Is Not Free Speech
February 4, 2013
At the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) website, the organization posts a nice response from DePaul University President Dennis Holtschneider in response to the recent vandalism of the campus YAF chapter's pro-life display. Holtschneider assures YAF president Kristopher Del Campo that a thorough investigation of the vandalism is being conducted. He also acknowledges that the vandalism is "deeply upsetting in that your and your fellow students' opportunity to give voice to your beliefs was unacceptably stifled by other students." That's right. I had planned on ending this blog entry right there. Then I read to the bottom of the page, […]» Read More
DePaul University Investigating Vandalism of Group's Pro-Life Display
January 23, 2013
Fox News Radio and other outlets are reporting an unfortunate and, as Gina's blog of earlier today shows, all too common instance of student-led censorship. At DePaul University, the campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (with university permission) erected a pro-life display consisting of 500 small blue and pink flags. As Fox reports, "The flags represented the number of unborn children aborted every day." When YAF members went to check on their display toward the end of the day, however, they found that some DePaul students had taken the liberty of getting an early start on cleaning up the […]» Read More
DePaul University's Double Standard
November 11, 2011
Student newspaper The DePaulia ran a student opinion piece on November 8 calling out DePaul University for its double standard regarding freedom of association. The piece by Ernie Enriquez explains that DePaul refuses to give equal treatment to Students for Cannabis Policy Reform (SCPR) simply because of the views the unrecognized student group is promoting. Enriquez quotes SCRP president Jeff Kramer: This school has an LGBT club, which is a great thing, but it demonstrates that their "Catholic" values have little to do with similar minded people assembling on their grounds. No, this was purely political. Indeed, as a private university, DePaul would […]» Read More
DePaul Alumnus Speaks out Against University's 'Managing' of Ideas
April 5, 2011
As I wrote here a few weeks ago, the DePaul University administration has offered shifting explanations, none of them satisfactory or in line with the free speech promises DePaul makes to its students, for its refusal to recognize the student group Students for Cannabis Policy Reform. Regarding a February 28 article in The DePaulia, I wrote of DePaul Vice President for Student Affairs James Doyle (emphasis mine): [I]n a February 28, 2011, article in the student newspaper The DePaulia, Doyle … distorts SCPR's goals and confirms that the group is being discriminated against on the basis of its viewpoint, but nonetheless […]» Read More
The Shifting Sands of DePaul University's Censorship of Student Group
March 4, 2011
DePaul University Vice President for Student Affairs James R. Doyle has played no small role in putting DePaul on our recent list of the "12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech," featured at The Huffington Post. He secured DePaul's spot not only by denying recognition to the student group Students for Cannabis Policy Reform (SCPR)—in defiance of DePaul's promises of free speech and freedom of association—but also by continuously shifting his rationale for doing do. Briefly, let's recount Doyle's history with SCPR. Following months of delays in processing the group's application, Director of Student Life Suzanne Kilgannon told SCPR via e-mail […]» Read More
How Did DePaul University Get on FIRE's 'Worst 12' List?
January 28, 2011
Hopefully by now you've seen FIRE's picks for "The 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" at The Huffington Post. Six of them were relatively obvious choices—those being the six schools currently on FIRE's Red Alert list, the "worst of the worst," as we often say. Given the hundreds of other schools out there, many with one or more red-light speech codes as rated in FIRE's Spotlight database, what went into deciding which others made our "dirty dozen"? Well, repeat run-ins with FIRE, repeated free speech offenses over the years, and having incredibly bad speech codes that violate clear promises of free […]» Read More
FIRE in 'The Huffington Post' on America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech
January 27, 2011
Today, The Huffington Post published FIRE's list of America's 12 Worst Schools for Free Speech. An expansion of FIRE's Red Alert List of the "worst of the worst" schools for student and faculty rights, this "dirty dozen" slideshow includes the schools that come onto FIRE's radar screen again and again for their repeated and egregious violations of fundamental rights, as well as schools whose policies are so bad that they simply had to be included. For longtime Torch readers, the presence of most of these schools on our list won't come as a surprise. But we don't want to give it all away here. Is […]» Read More
Illinois Supreme Court Ends Professor Klocek's Free Speech Case at DePaul
December 13, 2010
The Illinois Supreme Court recently decided not to hear the appeal of former DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek, who has been fighting for justice ever since he lost his job simply for arguing with students. Here is what Greg said about DePaul University back in 2006: Professor Klocek lost his job at DePaul University in Chicago without any due process after he argued with several students about issues in the Middle East at a student activities fair. … Klocek's case was FIRE's first major clash with DePaul, but it would not be our last. As loyal Torch readers know, we have since battled with DePaul over its […]» Read More
Catholic Bishops Stood With FIRE in 'CLS v. Martinez'; Where Will they Stand on Freedom of Association at DePaul?
November 19, 2010
The annual fall general assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) concluded its four-day sessions in Baltimore yesterday. Of interest to FIRE and interested Torch readers is that just prior to the assembly's beginning on Monday, USCCB's Committee on Catholic Education accepted the recommendations from a working group of bishops and college presidents on how to evaluate the success of Ex corde Ecclesiae, the Vatican's blueprint for Catholic colleges. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday: Ex corde, the Vatican's document to guide Roman Catholic colleges, was released by Pope John Paul II in 1990. The U.S. […]» Read More
Discriminatory Treatment of Student Organizations at DePaul University
October 18, 2010
DePaul University is engaging in unjust and deceptive viewpoint discrimination against student organizations despite its promise to support "robust debate and exposure to differing points of view." After DePaul manipulated its student organization policy to deny equal treatment to Students for Cannabis Policy Reform—a point of view the university evidently disfavors—the group came to FIRE for help, but DePaul has refused to back down from its discriminatory policy. As Greg said in today's press release, "DePaul University promises student groups freedom of expression, but instead delivers censorship. If DePaul wants its guarantees of free inquiry and debate to be taken […]» Read More
Discriminatory Treatment of Student Organizations at DePaul University
October 18, 2010
CHICAGO, October 18, 2010—DePaul University is engaging in unjust and deceptive viewpoint discrimination against student organizations despite its promise to support "robust debate and exposure to differing points of view." After DePaul manipulated its student organization policy to deny equal treatment to Students for Cannabis Policy Reform—a point of view the university evidently disfavors—the group came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "DePaul University promises student groups freedom of expression, but instead delivers censorship," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "If DePaul wants its guarantees of free inquiry and debate to be taken seriously, it should […]» Read More
Connecticut College Password-Protects Key Documents
May 21, 2009
Connecticut College—which in past years has earned a red light from FIRE for its speech codes—has password-protected two key documents, the Student Handbook and the Bias Incident Protocol. We at FIRE believe that prospective students and their parents have the right to know whether Connecticut College prohibits free speech—and whether the college even still promises free speech, since those promises were contained in earlier versions of the Student Handbook. This move is part of a disturbing trend among colleges to restrict access to these documents to those already on campus (we've recently seen this happen at DePaul University and Edinboro […]» Read More
DePaul University Password-Protects its Policies, Leaving Prospective Students in the Dark
November 4, 2008
DePaul University—historically no friend to free speech—now keeps its policies password-protected, leaving prospective students and their families in the dark about the types of restrictions on speech they will face as DePaul students. When we last updated DePaul's entry on Spotlight, we rated the university a "red light" for maintaining several policies that seriously infringed on students' free speech rights, despite the university's explicit promises, in the wake of several free-speech controversies there, to protect those rights. At last look, DePaul prohibited "language" that "demeans another person because of his/her gender," as well as "any behavior (verbal, written or physical)" […]» Read More
Minding the Campus Essay on 'Collegiality' as Criterion for Tenure
July 2, 2007
Last week, Minding the Campus featured an interesting essay by Anthony Paletta on DePaul University's denial of tenure to the controversial polemicist Norman Finkelstein. Tenure decisions have traditionally rested largely on the excellence of published scholarship. Finkelstein's scholarship has raised many questions about its cogency and quality with the tenure review committees. But the thrust of DePaul's case against Finkelstein was the issue of "respect for colleagues." By many accounts he's an unpleasant fellow, but as an academic that should not be the centerpiece for his tenure denial. Paletta cites FIRE's recent case with Professor Walter Kehowski at Glendale Community […]» Read More
Academic Freedom: Crucial for All Professors, Tenured or Not
April 2, 2007
In recent years, American higher education has been stricken with a growing sense of worry regarding the current trend of hiring more non-tenure track "adjunct" faculty members. As colleges and universities schedule more and more of their classes to be taught by faculty members who will never be tenured, no matter how long they teach, reaction has been far-reaching. Faculty unions like the National Education Association (NEA), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have all released plans for dealing with the increasing reliance on adjunct faculty, and in states like Florida and […]» Read More
Klocek Speaks
January 25, 2007
Thomas Klocek, who was dismissed from DePaul University after engaging in a heated discussion with several pro-Palestinian students, returned last night to warn students about the state of free speech at DePaul. He talked about his dismissal—made without any due process—and warned students that discussing controversial ideas may get them in trouble. Although Klocek's immoral dismissal has yet to be reversed, DePaul administrators may soon have to justify their actions. In 2006, Klocek filed a defamation lawsuit against DePaul which a judge refused to dismiss last year.» Read More
Klocek Returns to DePaul
January 17, 2007
John J. Miller has a post on Phi Beta Cons announcing that DePaul University will soon be the site of another controversial event when Professor Thomas Klocek returns to campus on January 24, along with David Horowitz, to discuss the role of free speech at Catholic universities. In 2005, FIRE advocated for Klocek, who was dismissed without a hearing from his position as a religious studies professor after he got into an out-of-class argument with students about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Klocek subsequently filed a lawsuit against the school. His visit to campus will be sponsored by the College Republicans, who […]» Read More
Columbia University: Land of the Free?
September 25, 2006
On the same day last week, Columbia University announced that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been invited to speak on campus and then, a few hours later, revoked that same invitation. Although the entire situation presents many issues relating to free speech and academic freedom, I was most struck by a statement that Columbia President Lee Bollinger made shortly after news of the controversial invitation broke. While defending the invitation, he proclaimed his love for freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas. The Columbia Spectator reported that: Bollinger said he believes students and faculty will use the opportunity to […]» Read More
Klocek Petition Closing in on Goal
August 31, 2006
A petition—previously discussed on The Torch—that seeks the immediate reinstatement of former DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek has been gaining steam over the summer. The petition only needs 295 more signatures to reach the goal of 2,000 for the second anniversary of Klocek's unjust termination. Once the petition reaches its goal it will be delivered to the President of DePaul University. As loyal Torch readers will recall, Thomas Klocek was indefinitely suspended, without due process, for engaging in a discussion about issues in the Middle East at a student activities fair. He was terminated after a few students who took […]» Read More
Chalk One Up for the Little Guy
July 3, 2006
FIRE intern Acton Gorton, who gained fame earlier this year for being fired as editor-in-chief of the Daily Illini after printing the Danish Mohammed cartoons, has written the following blog entry describing the latest goings-on in the never-ending saga of fired DePaul Professor Thomas Klocek: *** Earlier this month, Thomas Klocek was given the green light to sue DePaul University for summarily firing him after he debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with pro-Palestinian students at a student fair last year. As reported in the June 2, 2006, Chicago Tribune (story is now in pay-only archive), Judge Stuart Nudelman dismissed […]» Read More
'What Difference Can My Measly $18 Million Make?'
June 30, 2006
Two days ago, David French had a great post over at National Review's Phi Beta Cons about Larry Ellison's decision to rescind his $115 million gift to Harvard University following the Larry Summers fiasco. I have consistently been amazed at how wealthy alums give to their alma maters uncritically and almost as if they had no choice in the matter. The most extreme version of this that I have been exposed to was at a speech in New York City, when an audience member stood up and said (this is far from an exact quote, but it gets the point […]» Read More
Petition for Klocek
June 22, 2006
Thanks to John J. Miller at Phi Beta Cons for bringing greater attention to a petition being circulated by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East on behalf of Professor Thomas Klocek. Professor Klocek lost his job at DePaul University in Chicago without any due process after he argued with several students about issues in the Middle East at a student activities fair. Miller wrote an excellent article about the Klocek scandal in National Review last fall. Klocek's case was FIRE's first major clash with DePaul, but it would not be our last. As loyal Torch readers know, we […]» Read More
John Leo Awards 'Sheldons' to the Richly Deserving
May 1, 2006
Those who follow John Leo's columns know that he awards a yearly booby prize called the "Sheldon" (in dubious honor of former University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney, who presided over the famous "water buffalo" affair) to the university president who "does the most to look the other way when free speech is under assault on campus." As Leo describes it, "the prize is a statuette that looks something like the Oscar, except that the Oscar shows a man with no face looking straight ahead, whereas the Sheldon shows a man with no spine looking the other way." This year, […]» Read More
FIRE Comes to Chicago
April 24, 2006
Be advised, Chicago-area Torch readers: FIRE's own Greg Lukianoff is heading your way. Our fearless leader will be part of a panel discussion on the Danish cartoons of Mohammed tomorrow night at the University of Chicago. More information can be found in our press release on the event. Incidentally, the Windy City is a very appropriate place for Greg to go these days. Chicago's own DePaul University has been in the news repeatedly for suspending a professor for his criticism of Palestinians, squelching a student group's efforts to protest a visit by Ward Churchill, and clamping down on an "affirmative […]» Read More
DePaul: The Nightmare That Keeps on Recurring
April 3, 2006
Today, the Collegiate Network announced that DePaul University won second "prize" in its Campus Outrage Awards, commonly known as the Pollys. Here's how the CN put it: DePaul University has essentially declared war on free speech on campus. First, the university suspended—without a hearing—a veteran adjunct professor for daring to debate students handing out pro-Palestinian literature on campus. Next, the administration branded as "propaganda" a College Republican protest of a Ward Churchill speech on campus. Finally, college officials shut down an affirmative action bake-sale sponsored by the campus conservative club and charged the club member who organized the event with […]» Read More
More Insanity at DePaul: Racial Graffiti a Hoax?
March 16, 2006
DePaul University has been the site of so many ridiculous assaults on liberty that it has quickly gained recognition at FIRE as a "basket case" when it comes to the issue. Unfortunately, it looks like DePaul is going to need an even bigger basket. Mathematics professor Jonathan Cohen has the whole story in a must-read post on The American Thinker. On the morning of March 8, DePaul students woke up to an e-mail from DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider informing them that racist graffiti had been found on campus during the early morning hours. The school scheduled an information session and […]» Read More
DePaul Students Acquitted of Harassment Charges
February 20, 2006
FIRE's press release today details the resolution of the latest infringement upon free speech at DePaul University. DePaul recently charged members of the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) with harassment for holding an "affirmative action bake sale," the point of which was to spark debate by satirizing affirmative action policies. FIRE intervened by writing a letter to DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider on January 23 and then going public on January 30. DePaul took FIRE's objections into consideration, saw the error of its ways, and acquitted the students of harassment charges. The students, however, were not cleared of all charges, as DePaul […]» Read More
Partial Victory for Free Speech at DePaul
February 20, 2006
CHICAGO, February 20, 2006—DePaul University has acquitted a conservative student group that was charged with harassment for holding an event that satirized affirmative action. Until the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) intervened, DePaul administrators had been investigating the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) for holding an "affirmative action bake sale" protest. "It's about time DePaul realized that dissenting opinions are not the same thing as harassment," stated FIRE Interim President Greg Lukianoff. "FIRE has had to intervene in case after case of viewpoint discrimination at DePaul. The university's record of repression is shameful." On January 17, the DCA held […]» Read More
DePaul, Meet Kutztown
February 10, 2006
DePaul University, a private institution that proudly bills itself as the nation's largest Catholic university, could learn a few lessons from Pennsylvania's little-known Kutztown University. Earlier this week, the College Republicans at Kutztown did exactly what the DePaul Conservative Alliance tried to do—that is, they had an "affirmative action bake sale." As FIRE's recent press release on DePaul noted: Affirmative action bake sales are a widely used form of satirical protest against affirmative action. Organizers display a menu on which black and Hispanic students are charged lower prices than Asian and white students for the same items. The bake sales […]» Read More
DePaul's Sordid Legacy Continues
January 30, 2006
Yet another incident of censorship and administrative abuse has arisen at DePaul University. This time, as today's press release explains, the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) protested affirmative action by holding an affirmative action bake sale, which was intended to spark debate. Before an hour had passed, however, the Dean of Students, in true DePaul style, shut the bake sale down. The students who organized the bake sale are now under investigation for possible violations of DePaul's Anti-Discriminatory Harassment Policy and Procedures. First, DePaul spokeswoman Denise Mattson said that the bake sale was held in an inappropriate location, yet FIRE has […]» Read More
DePaul University Calls Affirmative Action Protest 'Harassment'
January 30, 2006
CHICAGO, January 30, 2006—Earlier this month, DePaul University shut down an "affirmative action bake sale" protest, and is now investigating a student organizer for "harassment." DePaul's latest offense against liberty follows its 2005 dismissal of a professor for arguing with pro-Palestinian students and its censorship of students' peaceful protest of controversial professor Ward Churchill. With this incident, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is intervening at DePaul for the third time in less than a year. "DePaul cannot seem to resist punishing its students and professors for expressing their political viewpoints," stated Greg Lukianoff, FIRE's interim president. "Fighting […]» Read More
On National Television Tonight: DePaul Surrenders
January 6, 2006
As today's press release announces, FIRE has restored the DePaul University College Republicans to their rights. The CRs ran into problems when they tried to post flyers using University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill's own words to protest his then-upcoming appearance at DePaul. Then, quoth the press release: When the CRs submitted the flyers for approval, administrators responded first by misleading the CRs into thinking that the event was cancelled, then by invoking a policy that stated, "We do not approve propaganda." The students, who did not believe that quoting a person's own remarks was "propaganda," posted the flyers anyway, […]» Read More
DePaul University Revokes Vague Ban on 'Propaganda'
January 6, 2006
CHICAGO, January 6, 2006—Under pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), DePaul University has lifted a vague ban on "propaganda" that it used last fall to silence student protest of a campus appearance by controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. "The revocation of the 'propaganda' ban is a step in the right direction for DePaul," said FIRE Interim President Greg Lukianoff. "Yet DePaul's disregard for freedom of expression reaches far beyond this one policy. The true test will be how DePaul reacts the next time students attempt to express dissenting opinions." DePaul's College Republicans (CRs) suffered […]» Read More
Administrative Abuses Live On
December 30, 2005
This year has seen a lot of activity around the theme of social justice in academia. Commitments to social justice are popping up in universities' mission statements and on course syllabi across the humanities. The problem I see with any university proclamation is that the terms involved are often ill-defined. What does a college mean when it says that it supports social justice? FIRE board member Daphne Patai advocated in a blog post earlier this month that students define social justice in their own ways, because any nebulous phrase lends itself to re-signification. Liberals and conservatives alike should realize that […]» Read More
DePaul Forbids Student Group to Protest Ward Churchill
December 21, 2005
CHICAGO, December 21, 2005—A student group that protested a campus appearance by University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill has become DePaul University's latest victim of censorship. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) intervened after the university banned its College Republicans from posting flyers protesting Churchill's visit and actually changed its own rules to prevent the organization from attending a workshop that he would be leading. "Just as DePaul was free to invite Ward Churchill to speak, so should its students be free to object to that invitation," said FIRE Director of Legal and Public Advocacy Greg Lukianoff. "DePaul's […]» Read More
'National Review' Highlights Klocek Case
October 10, 2005
John J. Miller has written an excellent article (subscription required) in the most recent issue of National Review detailing the plight of many conservative professors on campus. He focuses particular attention on the ridiculous treatment of Professor Thomas Klocek at DePaul. Klocek, as Torch readers may recall, was suspended after a heated, out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students. Miller has an excellent summary of the worst aspects of the case: Klocek's case is particularly striking because the DePaul administration has left a long paper trail that demonstrates its disdain for his ideas as well as its disregard for the principles of […]» Read More
Klocek Files Suit
June 17, 2005
Thomas Klocek, the DePaul professor who lost his job without due process after arguing with several students about the Middle East at a student activities fair, has now sued DePaul. Much of the suit focuses on claims that DePaul defamed Klocek, in part by providing the public with false and misleading information about his health. Klocek also claims breach of contract. In this case, DePaul has shamefully taken a single encounter where the facts are in dispute (the students and professor present radically different versions of the event), and has transformed it into a veritable festival of repression. First, DePaul […]» Read More
DePaul Professor Suspended Without a Hearing After Arguing with Students on Middle East Issues
May 18, 2005
CHICAGO, May 18, 2005—DePaul University administrators have suspended Professor Thomas Klocek without a hearing after he engaged in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair. When the students complained to administrators, Klocek was denied the rights that DePaul guarantees to professors accused of wrongdoing and immediately suspended. Statements from DePaul administrators indicate that Klocek was disciplined because of his harsh criticism of the students' viewpoint, despite DePaul's stated commitments to free speech and academic freedom. "DePaul has unquestionably violated Professor Klocek's due process rights, and the university did so because his statements were allegedly offensive," commented […]» Read More


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text: CRASHER 56 Posted October 7, 2011 Bye weeks....season ending injuries....fantasy football headaches....and sorry someone just grabbed my anti-Dumbo comment and is still running to the end zone with it....don't worry, the fullback will tackle him....really....and a return to the bar of some of our favorite football peeps (well aside of Chiefs Guy, we may NEVER see him again )....all makes for another fun week of NFL football....and Chiefs/Colts, the Andrew Luck Bowl continues, as we pass the 1/4 point (already) in the NFL!Sunday October 9:1pm:Eagles at Bills:This is a big game for both teams....if the Bills lose two in a row, then the "same old Bills" comments are gonna start flowing....and well the Eagles....went from "Dream Team" to "typical Phily Sports team" in a matter of 4 weeks, failed expectations, flaws all over, and fans in a near-riot frenzy (wonder who's fault it is that they can't block, tackle, make plays or do any of the little things that MATTER in football)....the Bills can block...the Bills can rely on the running game and Fred Jackson to move the chains and shorten the game, defensive players that can man up and make the one big play....hell even a Stevie Johnson who can hit the home run....don't get me wrong the Eagles have home run hitters....ask the Yankees how that works out why don't ya? .....the Eagles do everything but the little things you NEED to do to win each week in the NFL....want proof? 1-3! And maybe I do have the Buffalo-Blinders and the Croissant-Cheers going, but add in home field and a team with a direction going against a team that looks LOST (for Christ Sake the 49er comeback DOUBLED their point total on the SEASON), though it will be fun to watch and see how the Bills fans react to Vick, since it was released that the NFL wanted and told Vick to NOT sign in Buffalo (least it worked out for ya's and you got a real QB in Fitz, not a running back who plays in the shotgun....)Winner: BillsGame Quality: ***** (the points will be a-flying!)Saints at Panthers:This too will be a fun game....the Panthers remembered their running game...hooray! But still despite all of sCam's flash and numbers....1-3 (no wonder Mr. Crossandiwch likes him, all flash, no results!)...he's made it interesting, but he's only beaten a WORSE team during a typhoon, yay....the Saints can go yard for yard with the Panthers, splash in some running game, and some defensive guys who can make the game changing play, and the Saints are just better....and by a LOT...it will be high scoring...but sCam-a-mania ain't running wild here....BROTHA!Winner: SaintsGame Quality: **** (more offense abounds!)Oakland at Houston:Wow, this out of nowhere became a pretty damn relevant game of football too....the Raiders have shown they can hang with anyone in this league, and are playing pretty good football (2-2, Run DMC is running awesomely, the D is playing solid, and this team is rallying behind the new coach....times are good in Oakland....but the bar is set pretty low too....don't take much, hell they're glad no one's been shot in the stadium in like a month), the Texans on the other hand, without Andre Johnson struggled MIGHTILY to beat the awful Steelers, and didn't do much impressive....well aside of winning of course, least the next three games should show us if this is the soft roll-over Texans team I expect them to be...yeah they can run the ball and the front seven is still good...but I keep looking at Houston...and I can't....I just can't I tell you!!!!Winner: OaklandGame Quality: **** (geesh, look at all the good matchups)Chiefs at Colts:Oh THIS IS GLORY, WONDER....ANTI-FOOTBALL DEFINED!!!! Matt Cassel.....Curtis Painter....OH BOY!!!! Let's be fair as much as I embrace these crappy football games, is there much to be factored into these teams?? Not really, I wish I could say I saw the Colts on Monday but I was too busy raising hell on ice (and it was fun!) I know Tampa had to come from behind (my survival pool and my first place standing in the picks pool also thank you!), but when you have two sh!t sandwiches of equal quality, and you HAVE to eat one....I'm gonna eat the one that doesn't travel on a plane (or at least stall on eating until Brian shows up and offer the pile to him since he'll like it....), so translating the babble to English....gimmie the home team and minimal points.....Winner: ColtsGame Quality: **** (anti-football is FUN!)Bengals at Jaguars:When you talk the worst teams in the league, the Jaguars are in the conversation....the Bengals are actually NOT, Andy Dalton is slowllllyyyy getting better, and having a few weapons to get the ball to helps (and you keep fighting this Cedric Benson, the NFL has NO case to suspend you for anything that happened during the lockout!), the Jaguars....they got MJ-D, and a bag of balls.....not a pretty visual....not a pretty football team....I guess Jacksonville's best chance is another monsoon, I don't think that's happening.....Winner: BengalsGame Quality: ** (dare we call this anti-football, hell yes we do!)Arizona at Minnesota:Two more AWFUL teams locking up....least one of these was expected to be awful (yes you Minnesota), and people are already screaming for McNabb to be put down for Chrisitan Poder-ous (effing Ponderous man...ahh, old school O&A joke, from when they were you know....funny), but with the teams on the schedule for the Vikings it ain't gonna happen....which is good for the McNabb haters (or people who are amused to see him FAIL like me).... Arizona on the other hand....LOST TO SEATTLE....I can't get past that, I know this isn't the '86 49ers, but SEATTLE??? CMONNNNNNNN...though sadly Seattle is better then the Vikings, and at least Arizona realized handing the ball off is a good and effective option....just remember when you fall forward the play is over (talk about a top 5 of all time blown calls right? In the end that fail may cost Arizona their season.....), it matters not today.....awful the Vikings are....and mediocre on their best day beats flat out AWFUL every time.....Winner: ArizonaGame Quality: **Seattle at NY Giants:Heh....speaking of Seattle....right?? Let's see Tavares Jackson...against the Giants who are getting healthy and ready on the D-Line??? HELLLOOOO SURVIVAL PICK!!!! <3, not much to say about this one aside of the Giants will have to work HARD AS HELL to screw this one up....least you Yankee fans can watch this on Sunday right??Winner: GiantsGame Quality: DUD (this is like watching baseball kinda bad ...)Tennessee at Steelers:Boy, this is a game you looked at TOTALLY different a month ago, ain't it?? When we all saw this on the schedule we saw a Titans team with maybe no CJ, rookies all over, new coach and the big, bad Steelers on the schedule....we all said "well this is a loss" and moved on.....this is why we play the games folks....in the last 4 weeks the Steelers have dropped like Obama's approval ratings (you thought I was gonna make the Owen joke, didn't you?), the Steelers can't block and are getting pushed off the ball on defense...they look like they got OLD, and got old in a Faster-Then-Light jump!! It's amazing actually....this might be the game Chris Johnson looks like CHRIS FRAKING JOHNSON....and Matt Hasselbeck is the early guy in the running for comeback of the year (hell if they make the playoffs, we could make that MVP....seriously....really!), the Steelers will just be happy to have Big Ben SURVIVE each week now....forget winning.....I wonder if that sweaty angry ballbag entitled Steelers fan will show up again like he did last week (you know the type, they expect their team to step on the field and the other team is supposed to crawl in the fetal position and BEG for mercy...problem is HIS team needs the mercy) I'm still amazed I'd have called this a Steeler squash if it was a Week 1 game.....Winner: TitansGame Quality: ** 3/4 (adding interest because the Steelers are on the edge of falling over already)4pm:Tampa at San Francisco:You know....you actually gotta pay attention to this game at 4:00 this week..... I'll tell ya one thing, if the Bucs go up 20 on the 49ers, they'll beat them down and finish the job (ya hear me dawg?), and are the 49ers good enough to put up THAT kinda massive effort two weeks in a row??? Not really, not even close, Tampa's been solid all year, getting QB play and RB play each and every week, but the Niners are being scrappy, and any coach that can make Alex Smith look like an NFL QB....that's Coach of the Year worthy in that ALONE, this will be a battle and probably an ugly one...but that's Tampa's style of football defined....the home field don't matter either the way Tampa wants this one to go....and the 49ers can't pull back to back games out their ass, that ass ain't big enough.....Winner: TampaGame Quality: ***San Diego at Denver:The only question here is how awful will San Diego play to keep this one close....how desperate will John Fox get and put Tim Teebow in the game (though it's amusing to see this 3rd String QB getting crappy T-Shirt commercials isn't it?)....Denver's got nothing and less then...San Diego has all the pieces and it's not September anymore, so maybe we start seeing the real Chargers soon.....go get em!!!Winner: San DiegoGame Quality: DUDNY Jets at Patriots:Oh boy, oh boy....two "top teams" in the AFC, who have been simply HORRIBLE to start the year....the Pats are for the most a one dimensional arrogant pass happy team that laughs at the run (kinda how Chris McCabe plays Madden, well except for the fact that he's 1-4, HA!), can't play much defense....and doing nothing but simply trying to outscore their opponents....and here we have the Jets....we know no NT that they can keep off the QB (my God that was the most embarrassing offensive effort from TWO TEAMS that we were subjected to for a Sunday Night Football game....*cringe*), the Jets can't run the ball worth a damn either....well maybe they will this week...Sanchez is beat up...and hell even Rex Ryan's shut his mouth this year (finally....if only his idiot, fatter brother would do so too....), usually I try to look at these teams and see what they CAN'T do, but these teams "can't do" so much, I gotta go on what they CAN do, and the Pats can still throw ya out the building....Winner: PatriotsGame Quality: **** (always is)8pm:Green Bay at Atlanta:Didn't we see this six months ago? When the Falcons were decent? Oh yeah we did....and a Packer team with 15 guys on IR pounded like veal an Atlanta team that was playing good....the Packers are healthier now, the Falcons can't run, can't protect the QB, and the defense has been "stealthy" at best....this is gonna be savage and brutal....Winner: PackersGame Quality: ***Monday October 10th:Bears at Lions:Welcome back to Prime Time Detroit!!! Least the Bears remembered they have a running game, even if it was only against Carolina, it was a sign of hope....I don't expect Mike Martz to stay with it though...he'll get bored and call 55 pass plays this week, just watch....are the Lions due for a letdown? Probably, but not in their first home game on Monday Night since they had that Barry Sanders guy, and I don't think they'll need two pick 6's to win this one....though Jay Cutler's never seen an INT he didn't like either...CMON 5-0!!!!!Winner: LionsGame Quality: *** (I may actually be upset I'm gonna miss this playing hockey)Week 5 NFL Power Rankings:AFC:1. Bills...it's ok, it was a bump on the road, they'll get over it.....2. Ravens.... who owe Sanchez a thank you note for all the Christmas gifts last week.....3. Titans....It's all about the Hasselbecks!4. Patriots....least they ran the damn ball last week.....5. Houston....as unimpressed as CM Punk is.....NFC:1. Packers....still kinda boring, but still whippin ass and taking names....2. Lions...would like the same courtesy from Dumbo, that Sanchez is to the Ravens.....3. Saints....the best of the rest....4. Tampa Bay....shocking me this season...not last week, but overall....5. Washington....holy hell....Rex Grossman was RIGHT???? 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A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
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April 9, 2008
The Bisons nearly blew an eight run lead, but managed to hold off a late Skyhawks rally, as they defeated UT-Martin, 10-9 on Wednesday, April 9.
The Bisons got on the board first with three runs in the first. Caleb Joseph got the scoring going with an RBI single up the middle. Brad Gooch added to the Bisons lead with a sacrifice fly to right. Ryan Wilkins completed the inning's scoring with a ground rule double to right center.
The scoring continued for Lipscomb in the second on an RBI double by Jorge Gutierrez. Gutierrez came around to score on a balk later in the inning to increase the Bisons lead to 5-0.
Wilkins drove in his second RBI of the game in the third on a ground out to third.
Allen Bolden gave the Bisons an 8-0 lead in the fourth, drilling his fifth home run of the season, a two run shot, to right center.
The Skyhawks finally got on the board in the fifth, scoring four runs against the Bisons' starter, Matt Bowling. Bowling came out to pitch the sixth, but after allowing the first two runners to reach base, he was relieved by left-hander Paul Piennette. Both of the inherited runners scored against Piennette, completing Bowling's line for the night. In five innings, he gave up six runs, four earned, on seven hits.
The Bisons got one of the runs back in the bottom of the inning, when Gooch scored on a fielding error by the Skyhawks third basemen.
UT-Martin pulled closer, scoring two runs in the sixth off of Piennette, to pull within 9-6. In two innings, Piennette gave up two runs, one earned, on four hits.
The Bisons scored their final run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI single by Blake Bratcher.
However, the Skyhawks did not let up, scoring two runs in the seventh and another run in the eighth to give the Bisons a scare. However, reliever, Kyle Tognazzini escaped a bases loaded jam in the ninth to earn the save and give the Bisons the 10-9 win.
"Just like last time it looked early on like they were going to be flat the whole game and about half way through they put together a big inning on us," Bolden said. "In this game you have to play well early and play well late and unfortunately we didn't finish off and play well late offensively.
"We wanted to come back in with a little revenge in mind after losing to them last week and we didn't exactly beat them like we wanted to, but I think having to beat them in a tight situation like that will help in games like this weekend against Florida Gulf Coast and later on in the season."
Bowling earned the win to improve his record to 1-1.
"Bowling is a great pitcher with great stuff," Bolden said. "Unfortunately he has not had as many opportunities as he would have liked to have had this season. In his two outings he has come out and thrown strikes and challenged hitters and given us an opportunity to win the game. For him to not have thrown in three weeks, we could not have asked for a better outing."
With the win the Bisons improved to 18-14 on the season. They will be back in action when they take on Florida Gulf Coast on Friday, April 11.


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State Department Pulls Top Secret Security Clearance From Diplomat Who Linked To Publicly Available Info
from the head-in-the-sand dept
As we've noted many times, such info is clearly public now. But the US has a "head in the sand" approach to such things, and pretends that even though anyone with internet access can easily see this document, that it's still really "classified." So it began an "investigation" of Van Buren, which has now resulted in his top secret security clearance being yanked. And, demonstrating what a cowardly, childish and petty action this is, they didn't even fully revoke his clearance -- a move that could be appealed. Instead, they put it on an indefinite "temporary suspension," which can't be appealed.
So, uh, now what? It's not like he revealed anything that he got because of that clearance. He can still sift through the leaked Wikileaks documents like anyone else in the world and point stuff out. What good does the State Department think it has done here, other than making themselves look like completely vindictive idiots who take pointless actions against those who criticize them? This doesn't help protect classified info (at all). If anything, it draws a lot more attention as to what's in that document, and it makes our State Department look foolish. I want a State Department that deals in reality. Punishing someone for linking to public info is a move that is from an organization that lives in a fantasy world. That's scary.


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Nov. 22, 2008
Courtesy of CWPA
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Kyle Gertridge, Jamie Neuwirth, Peter Sauerhoff and John Barrett all scored pairs of goals to power Johns Hopkins University to a 10-9 win over the MIT men's water polo team, in the second round of the Collegiate Water Polo Eastern Championship Saturday.
The win places Johns Hopkins into the fifth place game at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 23 versus Bucknell University. MIT will meet Iona at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday in the seventh place game. The Engineers fell, 12-11, to the Gaels for the second time this season at the Northern Division Championship just two weeks ago.
Leading 5-3 at halftime, the Blue Jays saw their lead sliced to a goal as MIT's Mike Smith-Bronstein ripped a shot inside a post at the 6:32 mark of the third period. Hopkins fired back with a score by Barrett on an exclusion chance at 4:52, but the Engineers returned the margin to a goal with 54 seconds left in the period as Matt Chapa scored to pull MIT to within 6-5 with eight minutes of play left.
The fourth period saw an explosion of offense as Neuwirth buried an exclusion goal at 7:21, Mark Artz tallied an advantage goal at 6:38 to pull MIT back to within 7-6, Sauerhoff scored a natural goal at 4:38 to push the margin back to two and Devin Lewis tallied a marker for the Engineers to put the score at 8-7 with 4:25 left in the fourth period.
The teams continued the pattern as Neuwirth scored for Hopkins at 4:10, Lewis tallied another goal for MIT at 3:42 and Gertridge rifled a penalty shot home at 3:27 to put the Blue Jays in front 10-8.
MIT attempted to comeback as Smith-Bronstein scored on a penalty shot at 1:31, but the JHU defense locked down as the Engineers final shot with four seconds left on the clock sailed high to hand the Blue Jays the win.
The game was a dramatic shift from the last meeting between the two teams as Johns Hopkins captured the Division III Eastern title, the 11th in program history, in Baltimore with a 22-15 victory over MIT on October 26.
In cage, Chris Hutchens made 13 saves to earn the win, while Columbus Leonard stopped five shots for MIT.