Charlotte and its surrounding suburbs see tens of thousands of college students filter in and out each year, from the massive University of North Carolina at Charlotte to highly-ranked Davidson College and the smaller Queens University of Charlotte.
The hotly anticipated Steph Curry biopic and "Fresno" are among the top bets at the annual festival, which kicks off April 13 at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre.
Over the course of a month, students on four different college campuses shut down speakers they disagreed with. Why is it so hard to forge a consensus on what protecting free speech really means? Students at the State University of New York at Albany don’t view their recent protest of Ian Haworth, a conservative writer and podcaster who has made provocative statements about transgender people, as a disruption of his speaking engagement on campus. Rather, they consider it a demonstration of positivity, joy and support of LGBTQ+ students, meant to counteract the hate they said Haworth brought to campus.
The now-deleted guidelines raised questions about the role of faculty members in graduate-worker unionization efforts and had implications for academic freedom.
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