Peter Cvjetanovic

University of Reno president Marc Johnson speaking at a podium in cap and gown

UNR President Johnson to step down, move to faculty role

UNR President Marc Johnson announced Thursday he would step down from his role in the top job effective June 2020 to transition to a role as a professor within the university’s economics department.

Protestors interrupt Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, during his speech at the University of Nevada, Reno

Why are educated people so clueless about free speech?

To hear some tell it, the University of Nevada campus might as well be Berlin circa 1932, a “right wing” hotbed of racism and anti-semitism on the very precipice of some sort of Kristalnacht conflagration. The latest proof? The University has (gasp!) allowed a conservative student group to host a conservative speaker who says bad things about socialism and doesn’t hate Donald Trump, and even worse, invites people who disagree with him to ask him questions.

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