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48
.
    
Harvey Silverglate, “Liberals Are Killing the Liberal Arts,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 9, 2014,
http://online.wsj.com/articles/harvey-silverglate-liberals-are-killing-the-liberal-arts-1415573959
.

49
.
    
“Petition: Move the ‘Sleepwalker’ Inside the Davis Museum,”
Change.org
, February 5, 2014,
https://www.change.org/petitions/president-h-kim-bottomly-move-the-sleepwalker-inside-the-davis-museum
.

50
.
    
Lisa Fischman, “Response to Petition,”
Change.org
, February 4, 2014,
https://www.change.org/p/president-h-kim-bottomly-remove-the-uncomfortable-and-potentially-triggering-statue-put-up-without-student-consent/responses/10205
.

CHAPTER FIVE: INTOLERANCE 201

1
.
      
“University of Cincinnati: Speech Code Litigation,” FIRE,
http://www.thefire.org/cases/university-of-cincinnati-speech-code-litigation/
.

2
.
      
Ibid.; “Federal Court Delivers Final Blow to U. of Cincinnati ‘Free Speech Zone,’” FIRE, August 22, 2012,
http://www.thefire.org/federal-court-delivers-final-blow-to-u-of-cincinnati-free-speech-zone-2/
.

3
.
      
“Speech Zones,” Center for Campus Free Speech,
http://www.campusspeech.org/page/cfs/speech-zones
.

4
.
      
Section 4. Code of Student Conduct, 2014–2015 Student Guide, Boston College,
http://www.bc.edu/publications/studentguide/behavioralpolicies.html
.

5
.
      
Rachel S. Stuart, “UCF Students Protest Shrinking Free-Speech Zones,” Central Florida Future, September 18, 2014,
http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/story/news/2014/09/18/ucf-free-speech-zones/15839401/
.

6
.
      
“University of Cincinnati: Speech Code Litigation,” FIRE.

7
.
      
Greg Lukianoff, interview with author.

8
.
      
“California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions . . . on Constitution Day,” FIRE, September 19, 2013,
http://www.thefire.org/california-college-forbids-passing-out-constitutions-on-constitution-day/
.

9
.
      
Ibid.

10
.
    
Clarke Reilly, “Hawaiian University Sued for Blocking Students from Passing Out Copies of the Constitution,” Huffington Post, April 26, 2014,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/hawaii-constitution-lawsuit-university-students_n_5216705.html
.

11
.
    
Kevin Horne, “[Video] YAF Meets HUB Bureaucrats,” Onward State, September 18, 2014,
http://onwardstate.com/2014/09/18/video-yaf-meets-hub-bureaucrats/
; “Penn State Revises Speech Policies,”
Daily Collegian
, August 8, 2006,
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_5ee8bf5b-6faf-5dbe-8ded-b347242801f1.html
.

12
.
    
Horne, “[Video] YAF Meets HUB Bureaucrats.”

13
.
    
Jennifer Kabbany, “Conservative Activist Kicked Off Campus after Asking if ‘Big Government Sucks?,’”
College Fix
, October 18, 2014,
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19760/
.

14
.
    
Lauren Cooley, “Remove the Free Speech Zone at Broward College by Making the Entire Campus Open for Free Speech and Expression, as Protected by the First Amendment,”
Change.org
,
https://www.change.org/p/broward-college-remove-the-free-speech-zone-at-broward-college-by-making-the-entire-campus-open-for-free-speech-and-expression-as-protected-by-the-first-amendment
.

15
.
    
Kristina Sgueglia, “Condoleezza Rice Declines to Speak at Rutgers after Student Protests,” CNN, May 5, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/04/us/condoleeza-rice-rutgers-protests/
.

16
.
    
Douglas Belkin, “IMF’s Lagarde Won’t Speak at Smith, Part of a Growing List,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 12, 2014,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579558390035335958
.

17
.
    
“Statement of Protest against HGSE’s 2014 Alumni Convocation Speaker, Mike Johnston,”
ConvocationProtest2014.wordpress.com
,
http://convocationprotest2014.wordpress.com/statement-and-endorsers/

18
.
    
Dottie Lamm, “Kudos to Michael Johnston for Making Commencement Speech,”
Denver Post
, June 6, 2014,
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_25912244/kudos-michael-johnston-making-commencement-speech
.

19
.
    
Ari Cohn, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, February 24, 2015.

20
.
    
Susan Snyder, “Haverford Commencement Speaker Backs Out,”
Philly.com
, May 13, 2014,
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/campus_inq/Haverford-commencement-speaker-backs-out.html#7Ampz6tWT5qJBzzi.99
.

21
.
    
Ibid.

22
.
    
Isabel Knight, Martin Froger-Silva, and Eduard Saakashvili, “Students Share Mixed Responses to George/West Collection,”
Daily Gazette
, February 13, 2014,
http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2014/02/13/students-share-mixed-responses-to-georgewest-collection/
.

23
.
    
Ellie Sandmeyer, “George Will’s Offensive Rape Comments Alienate Another Institution (Updated),” Media Matters for America, October 7, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/07/did-george-wills-offensive-rape-comments-aliena/201043
.

24
.
    
George F. Will, “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism,”
Washington Post
, June 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
.

25
.
    
Tyler Kingkade, “Nearly 1,000 Students, Faculty Demand Miami University Cancel George Will Speech,” Huffington Post, October 21, 2014,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/miami-university-george-will_n_6017292.html
.

26
.
    
Joe Strupp, “Professors Slam George Will Campus Appearance after ‘Hate Speech’ Rape Column,” Media Matters for America, October 17, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/17/professors-slam-george-will-campus-appearance-a/201212
.

27
.
    
Beth Dalbey, “MSU Defends George Will as Commencement Speaker,” Royal Oak Patch, December 3, 2014,
http://patch.com/michigan/royaloak/msu-defends-george-will-commencement-speaker
.

28
.
    
Zack Budryk, “A Speaker Withdraws at Swarthmore,” Inside Higher Ed, April 8, 2013,
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/08/swarthmore-commencement-speaker-withdraws-over-controversy
.

29
.
    
Pervaiz Shallwani, “Kelly Booed off Stage during Talk,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 29, 2013,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303471004579166202578075932
; Connor McGuigan and Corky Siemaszko, “Brown University Students Shout Commissioner Kelly off the Stage as He Attempted Lecture on Policing,”
Daily News
, updated October 30, 2013,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/brown-students-shout-commish-kelly-talk-article-1.1500618
.

30
.
    
Amy Taxin, “Muslim Students Protest Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador: Free Speech or Criminal Act?,” Huffington Post, September 7, 2011, updated November 7, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/muslim-students-protest-michael-oren_n_952207.html
.

31
.
    
Jeff Greer, “Olmert Heckled at University of Chicago,”
U.S. News & World Report
, October 19, 2009,
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2009/10/19/olmert-heckled-at-university-of-chicago
.

32
.
    
“Southern California—This Just In,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 9, 2010,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/11-students-arrested-for-disrupting-israeli-ambassadors-speech-at-uc-irvine-.html
.

33
.
    
Greer, “Olmert Heckled at University of Chicago.”

34
.
    
“Making Sense of Simcox,”
Hoya
, November 7, 2006,
http://www.thehoya.com/making-sense-of-simcox/
.

35
.
    
Eliana Johnson, “At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder,”
New York Sun
, October 5, 2006,
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/at-columbia-students-attack-minuteman-founder/41020/
.

36
.
    
Charles B. Reed, Memorandum regarding Student Activities—Executive Order 1068, California State University, December 21, 2011,
https://www.calstate.edu/eo/EO-1068.html
.

37
.
    
Shane Morris, “One-Way Diversity,” Summit, October 17, 2014,
http://www.summit.org/blogs/summit-announcements/one-way-diversity/
.

38
.
    
Carla Rivera, “Christian Group Fights for Identity against Cal State Policy,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 24, 2014,
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-calstate-clubs-20141024-story.html#page=1
.

39
.
    
Rod Dreher, “A Response from Vandy’s Misfit Christian,” American Conservative, August 27, 2014,
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/vanderbilt-misfit-christian-tish-harrison-warren/
.

40
.
    
Harvey A. Silverglate, “A Campus Crusade against the Constitution,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 18, 2014,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/harvey-a-silverglate-a-campus-crusade-against-the-constitution-1411081302
.

41
.
    
“Buffalo Chapter Regains Status,” InterVarsity, August 8, 2012,
http://www.intervarsity.org/news/buffalo-chapter-regains-status
.

42
.
    
Tish Harrison Warren, “The Wrong Kind of Christian,”
Christianity Today
, August 27, 2014,
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/september/wrong-kind-of-christian-vanderbilt-university.html?share=HEM3rHy3NoDHiyDTDefd4lNjZn9ixdLt&start=1
.

43
.
    
Michael Paulson, “Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy,”
New York Times
, June 10, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/us/colleges-andevangelicals-collide-on-bias-policy.html?_r=1
.

44
.
    
Warren, “The Wrong Kind of Christian.”

45
.
    
Paulson, “Colleges and Evangelicals Collide.”

46
.
    
Tish Warren, interview with author, January 2015.

47
.
    
Ibid.

48
.
    
Peter J. Gomes, “Staff’s View of Christian Group Backward,”
Harvard Crimson
, April 16, 2003,
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/4/16/staffs-view-of-christian-group-backward/
;
Crimson
Staff, “A Discriminatory Clause,”
Harvard Crimson
, April 15, 2003,
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/4/15/a-discriminatory-clause-last-week-the/
.

49
.
    
Bob Smietana, “Foes of School’s Nondiscrimination Policy Look to Harvard,”
USA Today
, May 3, 2012,
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-05-03/vanderbilt-harvard-nondiscrimination-christian-groups/54732314/1
.

50
.
    
Peter J. Gomes, “Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible,”
New York Times
, August 17, 1992,
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/op-classic-gomes.html?pagewanted=all
.

51
.
    
Peter J. Gomes, “Staff’s View of Christian Group Backward,”
Harvard Crimson
, April 16, 2003,
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/4/16/staffs-view-of-christian-group-backward/
.

52
.
    
Gomes, “Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible.”

53
.
    
Jennifer Kabbany, “Conservative Muslim Student Vandalized with Eggs, Hot Dogs; Told ‘Shut the F*ck Up,’”
College Fix
, December 12, 2014,
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20486/
.

54
.
    
Gloria Steinem, Commencement Address 2007, Smith College, May 20, 2007,
http://www.smith.edu/events/commencement_speech2007.php
.

CHAPTER SIX: THE WAR ON FOX NEWS

1
.
      
“Remarks by the President at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner,”
WhiteHouse.gov
, April 29, 2012,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/29/remarks-president-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner
.

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