Editorial | Universities need public guidelines in addressing hate speech
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 16, 2020
Students are demanding universities take action and either expel the students — in the case of Temple and Penn State — or deny the student admission to the University — in the case of Pitt.
Opinion | New York Times, fire Bret Stephens
By Leah Mensch, Opinions Editor
January 7, 2020
His behavior can’t be excused with an editor’s note anymore.
Editorial: Acknowledge fake ads, not just fake news
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 27, 2019
It is Facebook’s responsibility to limit ads with false information, not just news with false information.
Editorial: Stephens’ idea of free speech is hypocritical, self-serving
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 28, 2019
Stephens’ reaction to a joke made on Twitter at his expense makes him a hypocrite and suggests he’s willing to use his social status to silence critics.
University Senate discusses free speech at annual plenary
By Maureen Hartwell, Staff Writer
March 27, 2019
In a week filled with protests and demonstrations in the wake of Michael Rosfeld’s acquittal, the University Senate convened to hold its annual plenary session focused on “Free Speech in the Modern University.”
Opinion | Trump’s executive order for free speech is ineffective
By Hayden Timmins, Staff Columnist
March 27, 2019
The order states that the government can withhold federal funds if the school is deemed to have violated the First Amendment, but it offers no specific way of determining this.
Report evaluates colleges’ free speech rules
By Neena Hagen, Staff Writer
January 10, 2019
Free speech rights are among the most debated topics on college campuses across the country. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, FIRE, put free speech issues into numbers in a report last month.
A productive, yet misrepresentative three-way debate
By Neena Hagen, For The Pitt News
November 30, 2017
At colleges across the country — from California to the University of Connecticut — political events frequently turn violent. So when I got to room 324 of the Cathedral of Learning Tuesday evening for the Pitt Political Science Student Association's three-way debate between Democrats, Republicans and Libertarians, I braced myself for a ba...
Pitt students’ protest represents model of free speech
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 19, 2017
When protesters descended on campus yesterday afternoon to push a controversial message, they weren’t the only ones ready to exercise their freedom of speech. Members of Christian Interviews, an organization from the Philadelphia area, appeared on the Fifth Avenue-side patio of Towers around 1 p.m. ...
Editorial: Florida university should let professor speak
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 31, 2017
In the aftermath of last fall’s elections, many on Twitter who had opposed President Donald Trump’s campaign blamed Florida — one of the states that gave the Republican an electoral victory. But Floridians, it seems, are just as quick to condemn the residents of other states that voted red. Kenneth Stor...