LOS ANGELES, October 10, 2011—Officials at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have stepped in after its student government unconstitutionally denied funding for a speech by conservative activist David Horowitz. The student government had engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination on two separate occasions and then tried to hide the evidence of its wrongdoing. The College Republicans, Horowitz's hosts, came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.

"UCSB's student government utterly refused to fulfill its constitutional duty to be viewpoint-neutral in its funding decisions," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "Thankfully, USCB has finally rectified this error and saved itself from an embarrassing and inevitably doomed fight against the First Amendment."

Read FIRE's press release here>>

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