F*** Yeah Free Speech
June 2, 2011 at 2:19 pm
How many times have you wanted to stand up in the middle of recitation and scream "SHENANIGANS!!!" but were just too scared your constitutional rights would not be respected? Fear not, comrades: the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has your back!
In a recent Huffington Post article (and in today's DP), FIRE named Penn one of the country's best colleges for free speech on the basis that it has "at least nominally protect[ed] speech that would be protected by the First Amendment" and hasn't "committed a serious incident of censorship...for at least several years" -- that they know of, at least. Those criteria don't seem all that stringent, but hey, we'll take it! Add that to Penn's inclusion in numerous gay-friendly rankings and it seems we have ourselves our own little social utopia in West Philly.