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• LGBT groups push to alter college admissions applications

  Iuna Dones - Daily Trojan •February 3, 2011

  USC has no plans to give students a direct way to identify as LGBT, despite a national push to add such options to applications.

• Interview with a U.S. student abroad who was in Cairo during protests

  College Fix Staff •February 3, 2011

  Students were basically without food and money in the days leading up to evacuation, with schools and the Embassy threatening students to get to them to leave.

• Video: Zach Wahls speaks about his family at Iowa House of Representatives hearing

  Katherine Miller - SFPA Editor •February 3, 2011

  SFPA contributor and Iowa Daily columnist Zach Wahls spoke about his family at a Iowa House of Representatives hearing on the constitutional ban on gay marriage. And the video has gone very viral.

• Arizona State University eliminates speech code, earning FIRE's 'green light' rating

  FIRE •February 2, 2011

  While more than two-thirds of the nation's colleges maintain policies that clearly and substantially restrict freedom of speech, ASU is now a proud exception, having revised a policy that unconstitutionally restricted the free speech of students and student organizations on campus.

• UCSD Black History Luncheon: Embracing diversity, or racism?

  Alec Weisman - The California Review •February 2, 2011

  When you allow one group that you support to use the same stereotypes that you attack another group of people for mocking, all you do is reveal your own ignorance, bigotry, and hypocrisy.

• Anti-bullying bill poses free speech problems, civil liberties groups say

  Kate Havard - St. John's College •February 2, 2011

  The Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act will be reintroduced into Congress this session.