INGORNANCE OF OUR RIGHTS AT OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES



On the Taste page of today's Wall Street Journal, some depressing news about student and administrator knowledge of the first amendment on our college campi:

That amendment begins as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." But twin surveys commissioned by FIRE and conducted by the University of Connecticut's Center for Survey Research and Analysis tell us how few on campus really understand it. One of 10 college administrators even checked "don't know" when asked to name a specific First Amendment right. Increasingly this lack of awareness is having ugly consequences for campus believers.

Additionally, a puny percentage of those surveyed know anything about the religious liberties granted in the amendment:

Only 6% of administrators and 2% of students knew that freedom of religion is the first freedom mentioned by the First Amendment.

Sad. You can read the whole story here.