Assembly LX: Free Speech, Free Expression and Free Inquiry at Yale
Friday, April 26 through Saturday, April 27, 2002

Yale was founded to be the cure to the loose living and free thinking at Harvard. In the 1740's it was a punishable crime to call a professor a hypocrite and the university tried to outlaw any kind of student speech. The link between the university and free speech came about in the development of the modern university and is not an eternal and immutable link as many suppose.

	Introduction by Assembly Chair Mark Greenwold Assembly Chair Mark Greenwold discusses the Woodward Report and poses questions about the freedom of speech.
	Plenary Speech of Gaddis Smith Professor Smith relates the history of free speech at Yale from The Collegiate School to the 1980’s.
	Plenary Speech of Dean Richard Brodhead Dean Brodhead explores the idea of free speech as it relates to academics and discusses some of the most recent incidents that tested the code of free speech at Yale.