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So to Speak podcast, episode 102: Cultural sites, slurs, antisemitism, and Title IX
FIRE's Samantha Harris (left), Will Creeley (center left), Nico Perrino (center right), and Robert Shibley (right).
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we are joined by ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥â€™s Robert Shibley, Samantha Harris, and Will Creeley to discuss:
- the firing of a faculty member at Babson College for a satirical Facebook post;
- the punishment of two students at the University of Connecticut for the use of a racial epithet;
- an executive order on antisemitism;
- and upcoming regulations on Title IX.
Recorded on Jan. 15.
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