“Many colleges and universities use laudable goals like tolerance and civility to justify policies that violate students’ free speech rights. While a university has every right to actively promote a tolerant and respectful atmosphere on campus, a university that claims to respect free speech must not limit speech to only the inoffensive and agreeable.”
Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation’s Campuses
"[T]he bureaucrats themselves seem unclear on how many professors we have. Elsewhere on Dartmouth's website -- on the 'Facts' page under 'Ask Dartmouth' -- the current number of tenure-track Arts and Sciences faculty is listed as 363, nine less than the number listed in 'Ask Dartmouth.'"
--The Dartmouth, Apr. 16, 2007
available at http://thedartmouth.com/2007/04/16/opinion/priorities/print/
"'I think it's interesting when critics say that I'm an old-fashioned dinosaur who's only about teaching and not research,' Smith said. 'It's like: Well, hello[?] I'm an academic, that's my job. I go teach and then I research and write scholarly articles, and that improves my teaching. All I'm saying is that balance is important.'"
--The Dartmouth, Jan. 29, 2007
"There can be no right of speech where any man . . . [is] compelled to suppress his honest sentiments."
