Column: UI settles lawsuit attacking its campus-speech policies – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "Like the universities of Texas and Michigan, the UI agreed, among others things, to defang its bias-response teams that were created to identify and punish those accused of making unacceptable remarks, whatever they were...Among the issues that pit students against each other on campus are disputes related to Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East and affirmative action. On the UI campus, disagreements about retired symbol Chief Illiniwek also cause angst."