Bearing News

Protection of First Amendment rights under scrutiny

Multiple Authors • January 31, 2018

With hate speech particularly under fire in recent years, the limits of the First Amendment get called into question.

30 years later ‘Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier’ still impacts student speech

George Frey • January 29, 2018

Nearly 20 years after the decision of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, RBHS students reflect upon the monumental court decision regarding the First Amendment rights of high school students.

Millennials question free speech

Nikol Slatinska • May 10, 2016

Are Americans taking their advantage of First Amendment rights too far? According to data from the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of millennials think so and would be okay with limiting free speech if...

Millennials question free speech

Nikol Slatinska • April 28, 2016

Are Americans taking their advantage of First Amendment rights too far? According to data from the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of millennials think so and would be okay with limiting free speech if...

Student’s arrest for controversial rap challenges free speech

Urmilla Kuttikad • May 23, 2013

Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, frequently pickets military funerals in an attempt to convey its belief that all tragedies - including military deaths - are caused by an increasing tolerance...

Flipping the bird puts First Amendment freedom to the test

Raj Satpathy • February 12, 2013

Every single citizen in the United States should be aware of our “inalienable rights.” The supreme law of the land, the Constitution, guarantees certain privileges to everybody in the United States,...