FIRE reports this troubling story of anti-conservative discrimination out of Stanford University:
In the wake of its heavily criticized, viewpoint-based retraction of funding to the Stanford Anscombe Society (SAS) student group for a conference on traditional values and marriage, Stanford University’s student government has ruled that the government’s Graduate Student Council (GSC) did not violate the group’s rights under Stanford rules. Additionally, the student government maintains that there is “simply not enough money” to fulfill requests for funding such as SAS’s request for $600—despite the fact that the student government has amassed a “Graduate buffer fund” of more than half a million dollars.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) wrote to Stanford on March 20 asking the university to honor its commitments to free speech and equality.
“Stanford students should be embarrassed and ashamed by their student government subjecting free speech to a popularity contest,” said Robert Shibley, FIRE’s Senior Vice President. “Until this injustice is reversed, Stanford students have no reason to expect that Stanford’s promises of free speech or equal treatment mean anything if they wish to express controversial views on campus.”
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