Hundreds of college students, groups targeted for speech in last 5 years: watchdog

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More than 600 college students and student groups have been punished or investigated by school administrators for "constitutionally protected expression" in the last half a decade, according to a nonpartisan advocacy organization.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released the report "Shifting Winds: Students Under Fire" on Thursday, finding that 63% of over 1,000 efforts by administrators, student groups or student governments to suppress student speech led to "administrative investigation or punishment."

The report, purporting to be the "most detailed collection of speech-related campus controversies involving students to date," analyzes efforts to censor students at public universities who engage in "expressive activity" that the group contends is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The document coincides with an interactive online database.

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Hundreds of college students, groups targeted for speech in last 5 years: watchdog

More than 600 college students and student groups have been punished or investigated by school administrators for constitutionally protected expression in the last half a decade, according to a

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