Fight for Your Rights
THET H U R S DAYI, M ARCHT 22, 2018HACAN • V OLU M E 85, I SSUE 22 THE ART OF SCIENCE SPEAKING OUT THE GLOBAL GAME Art and biology students Free speech policies at The members of the Ithaca collaborate to study their oral the college must have College women’s soccer team microbiomes to gain a deeper precise definitions of spent their spring break understanding of identity. public and private spaces. traveling through Europe. Page 13 Page 9 Page 19 as the degree to which citizens will sup- port the extensions of civil liberties to all, including those who advocate viewpoints that are highly disagreeable. The research BY by Christopher Claassen, lecturer in the Fight for Department of Politics at University of Glasgow, Scotland, pooled data from 4,000 respondents who were asked ques- tions about free speech during 2007–11. His research found that there is a direct your rights correlation between college towns and the degree of political activism and toler- ance of an area, he said. Students at the college are familiar IC students are with participating in political action on a number of pressing issues. On campus, students have participated in a number politically active of protests, including protests support- ing the part-time faculty union, rallies for Planned Parenthood and protests against on campus racism on campus and former college BY SAM HAUT culture in the United States. To respond, President Tom Rochon. STAFF WRITER she and some other students creat- After the election of President Don- Junior Anna Gard- ed a protest and information session ald Trump, protests occurred across the ner was originally about guns.
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