• Cornell University pledged on Friday to make freedom of expression a theme of the 2023-2024 academic year months after students shouted a conservative pundit out of the room, according to a recent announcement.
• Ann Coulter, a conservative personality, cut her speech short at Cornell in November 2022 after students repeatedly interrupted the event by shouting, playing circus music and making fart noises, the student newspaper Cornell Review reported.
• Cornell will host a variety of “scholarly and creative events and activities” to challenge the faculty, staff and student body to “engage” with the concepts of “free expression and academic freedom” throughout the current academic year, the announcement reads.

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