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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education placed Harvard on its list of the worst colleges for free speech. The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard, disagreed with this assessment in a recent editorial:

Upon quick inspection, the allegations levied by FIRE appear too insubstantial to make the claim that Harvard does not respect the rights and values of its students. …

For the most part, Harvard explicitly encourages vibrant, and diverse opinions on and off campus.

FIRE responded:

Harvard absolutely deserves criticism for its record on free speech: Just take a look at the cases at Harvard in which FIRE has been involved over the years. In these and other matters, Harvard has established a pattern demonstrating that an anti-free speech culture exists on campus. Even worse, students, faculty, and administrators often fail to grasp the free speech principles in play in a given situation.

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