Student gov’t creates team to tackle free speech suppression

NYU’s Student Government Assembly created a temporary committee to address reports of the free speech suppression on campus during the group’s monthly meeting on Thursday, in addition to discussing protections for international students and financial transparency. After the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression placed NYU last out of 261 U.S. universities in its latest ranking of colleges based on their free speech policies, SGA members said they sparked conversations among themselves about how to champion student rights. Two weeks after FIRE released its ranking, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International USA published a joint report that criticized NYU’s censorship of pro-Palestinian speech — increasing the urgency for the SGA’s cause. “Everybody should have their equal voice as long as they’re not inciting violence,” Dominic Orlando, chair of the Student Activities Board, told WSN.

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