HARVARD POLICY TARGETING FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES TAKES ABSURD NEW TURN

The university experience is meant to be a proving ground for ideas and intellectual growth, but campuses across the United States are restricting free expression through speech and behavior codes that marginalize, silence, and even control students. Harvard University recently introduced a new policy that restricts students from campus leadership positions if they join independent, off-campus, single-sex organizations like fraternities, sororities, and final clubs. Harvard has begun to backtrack in recent weeks, however, reports Atlas Network partner the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education(FIRE). In an absurd perversion of language, Harvard will allow single-sex organizations in practice as long as they pretend to have a gender-neutral policy in writing.