Thousands of Students Return to Campus with New Tools to Defend Liberty. PHILADELPHIA, September 2, 2009—Thousands of members of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s (FIRE’s) Campus Freedom Network are returning to campus this fall armed with new resources to fight for liberty on campus. At too many American colleges and universities, illiberal speech codes allow students less free speech than they would have in a public park back home. FIRE is offering abundant resources for students who wish to fight for their rights, including a prize-based incentive program for liberty activists on campus and $15,000 in scholarships for high school students. FIRE’s new online activism tools include a Red Alert widget that individuals can post to alert website visitors to the most dangerous campuses for free expression, while classic resources include FIRE’s Guides to Student Rights on Campus and Spotlight, FIRE’s extensive speech code ratings database.
“This fall, we launched the biggest ad campaign in FIRE’s history to warn students about the state of liberty on campus. We also want students and faculty members to know that FIRE offers more resources than ever to help them protect their rights,” FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley said. “Victims of campus censorship and repression have no better friend than FIRE.”
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