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“Special snowflakes”: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. on campus free speech debates

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about free speech, and we know that it’s a core value—so important that it is protected by the US Constitution. But do we all agree about what free speech really means? Ahh. Not so simple. Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. addresses some of the free speech issues currently being debated in this September 2017 Time Magazine essay.

Read it here: Glaude, Jr. "“The real ‘special snowflakes’ in campus free-speech debates”

 

First and goal: Claire Wallace on a woman’s place in football broadcasting

Something must be wrong with my TV. The video of my football game is perfectly clear, but the announcer’s voice is too high-pitched. Oh. Wait. The announcer is a. . . . WOMAN?! Avid football fan and fantasy writer Claire Wallace responds to the historic milestone with shock and delight in this September 2017 Huffington Post article.

Read it here: Wallace, “A woman’s place is in the broadcast booth”