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Article: Freedom Vote Sends Speech Police Packing at University of Wisconsin.(faculty vote abolishes campus-harassment codes)
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- Insight on the News
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- September 13, 1999
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Reversing the speech-code craze on campus, the University of Wisconsin at Madison has called off the speech police by becoming the first major university in the nation at which a faculty vote abolished all campus-harassment codes.
It was former chancellor Donna Shalala who established Wisconsin's stringent speech regulations a decade ago, setting limits on expression as well as punishment for anyone who dared to stray too far from the current orthodoxies of the left. "American society is racist and sexist," she proclaimed at the time. "In the 1960s, we were frustrated about all this. But now, we are in a position to do something about it." In a position, too, to ...