Pope Center Releases Report on Speech Codes

The John William Pope Center in conjunction with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report on free speech in the UNC System. The report,
“The State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina
System,” finds that “13 out of the 16 schools in the UNC System have at
least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom
of speech.”  Despite a press conference at the Legislature,
interviews with Pope Center director, George Leef on WBT’s Jason Lewis show
and Greg Lukianoff and Samantha Harris – the report’s authors – with
Bill LuMaye, and extensive coverage in print (including this coverage), UNC President Erskine Bowles has yet to comment on the report’s findings.