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Here are the 10 worst US colleges for free speech: report
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Here are the 10 worst US colleges for free speech: report

Did your school make the list?

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — or FIRE — compiled its annual list of the 10 worst U.S. colleges for free speech, and some of them might shock you.

FIRE has rated the following colleges the worst for free speech and features heavy hitters like Syracuse University, Liberty University, and more.

9. Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York

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The organization chose Syracuse University to be on the list for its practice of suspending students who performed in a satire roast of their fellow fraternity brothers.

According to FIRE, the school found the students responsible "for violating its many speech codes over the words used in the skit."

The organization listed various other offenses, which can be read here.

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