free speech

The Trust Collaboratory launched “Listening Tables” to promote understanding. But its champions worry about the impact of Columbia’s deal with the federal government on free speech.

Many students say they’re masking up at protests — or using keffiyehs to conceal their faces — out of fear of online harassment for publicly supporting Palestinians since the Oct. 7 attacks.

A student walkout was also expected around 2 p.m. at Columbia University.

First Amendment and defense attorneys warned the provisions could prove "coercive."

A Rutgers professor who lives in Brooklyn was taken for a psychiatric evaluation by NYPD officers after he made political comments in class and on Twitter about conservatives, Trump, and gun control.

"You ever see those animals at the Bronx Zoo? That's how I feel."

Parents had rallied against her, and someone egged her family's house.

The rally is happening this afternoon.

"The school only has a right to regulate conduct when it has an impact on the orderly operation of the school," one ACLU attorney argues.

There was a fight-threat assist in there too.