Free To Learn? Think Again: Campus Censorship On The Rise

(from Forbes):

By Tom Lindsay

Is there no end to the illegal suppression of free speech and debate on America’s public university campuses?

Apparently not. The latest perpetrators in the academic assault on the First Amendment are the University of Tennessee (UT) at Knoxville and the 10-campus University of California System.

At UT-Knoxville, the campus Pride Center published a guide instructing university members on the proper use of pronouns. Arguing that terms like “he” and “she” may be insufficiently “inclusive,” the guide recommends replacing these potentially offensive terms with, for example, “ze” and “xe.” Moreover, the new standards carry with them the suggestion that faculty inquire of each student by what pronoun he/she (sorry: make that “ze/xe”) prefers to be addressed. CONTINUE READING HERE