Student Protest News
The Daily Signal examines student protest movements and their role in shaping debates on education, culture, and politics.
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How Student Protesters Killed Free Speech at Yale Law School
Free speech is under fire at America’s universities. It’s an open secret that liberals dominate academia and wield their power with impunity on college campuses. But recently, radical leftists have become more brazen with their attempts to silence speech and organizations they don’t like. During a recent bipartisan free speech event at Yale Law School,…Douglas Blair -
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Nicaraguan Regime’s Persecution of Catholic Church Worsening Amid Growing Student Protests
Earlier this month, the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy in Managua, Nicaragua, was under siege. For 15 hours on July 13, government-sponsored paramilitaries opened fire on student protesters at a nearby university. Students have been at the forefront of the demonstrations against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega since they began in April. Explosives, snipers, and machine…Macarena Martinez -
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Campus Protesters Try to Silence Conservative Speaker, Demand College President’s Resignation
Student protesters swarmed California State University, Los Angeles to barricade the entrances of a theater where conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was set to deliver a speech about censorship and diversity on college campuses. Led primarily by the school’s Black Student Union and Black Lives Matter chapter, the hundreds of demonstrators, including some professors, poured into…Natalie Johnson -
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Why Conservatives Should Not Join Student Protesters’ Fight Against Woodrow Wilson
The arch-progressive Woodrow Wilson is under attack—but conservatives should not join the fray. Wilson is the latest target of modern liberalism in its war against the past. Our 28th president has recently drawn the ire of student protesters at Princeton, who want to scrub the university clean of his name and image because of his…Mike Sabo -
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Student Protesters React to Paris: ‘Pay More Attention to Us’
Millions of people worldwide were horrified to learn that Paris had been attacked by terrorists. But some supporters of the student protests at the University of Missouri had a unique reason for their dismay: outrage over what had happened in France was taking the spotlight off their grievances. “Wow, all this ruckus on the news…Ed Feulner -
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A Professor’s Take: College Student Protests Echo 1960s Protests
Recent student protests, which began at the University of Missouri and at Yale, are likely to spread across the country, given the reactions of both universities’ administrations. Is Yale a ‘Safe Space’? Could Yale be a safer place? Not only is there basically no crime on the Yale campus, but there are 86 full-time police…Scott Yenor -
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‘Never Discouraged’: Pro-Democracy Newspaperman Joins Hong Kong Student Protesters
In mid-October, during the peak of the democracy protests in Hong Kong, decidedly different demonstrators congregated outside the printing plant of Next Media, publisher of the Apple Daily newspaper. These demonstrators called for the fall of Jimmy Lai, the outspoken founder of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper despised by the ruling establishment in Hong Kong and…Josh Siegel