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NPR segment "Racial Tensions High on College Campus"
MICHEL MARTIN, host: I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, we conclude our Black History Month series with a closer look at race relations in the North. Historian Jason Sokol wrote about this in his new book, The Northern Mystique: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, and well have that conversation in just a few minutes. But first, we want to talk about another campus controversy with racial overtones - this at the University of California at San Diego. A party hosted by a white fraternity there earlier this month has sparked a tremendous response. They called it the Compton Cookout and party goers were encouraged to dress and speak in a manner that many other students found stereotypical and offensive. After several student organizations spoke out against the event, the editor of a campus newspaper appeared on a student-run television, last week, to mock the protesters.
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Adam Kissel on the Dave Congalton radio show on KVEC 920 AM
While in San Luis Obispo for his Cal Poly lecture, FIRE's Adam Kissel appeared on The Dave Congalton Show on KVEC radio.
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Episode 205: Greg Lukianoff at FreedomFest 2009: "Unlearning Liberty"
FIRE President Greg Lukianoff delivered an engaging and enlightening speech at FreedomFest in Las Vegas. Greg noted in particular the negative influence of excessive political correctness, a bureaucracy of administrators themselves uneducated in liberty, the increased reliance on a "risk management" approach to student conduct, and excessive fear of litigation as contributing factors in the repression of individual rights on college campuses today.
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