June 9, 2006

'Academic Bill of Rights' Criticized

By SARA LIPKA

State-imposed restrictions on classroom discussion — now under consideration by some Pennsylvania legislators — would erode the learning process, said Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition of student, faculty, and civil-liberties groups.

The group released a report, "Campus Voices: Students and Faculty Speak Out on the Free Exchange of Ideas in Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities," in anticipation of a legislative committee's fifth and final set of hearings on

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