UPenn requires disclosure of ‘controversial speakers’– www.thecollegefix.com

The University of Pennsylvania’s “special event review process” is drawing criticism after the school issued the guidelines ahead of the fall semester.

The Special Event Review Group says the guidelines are meant to support “open expression on campus.”

However, critics say the rules will have the opposite effect.

“Does the event have high-level, notable, or controversial speakers,” one mandatory question asks.

The school also requires all details “prior to an event being confirmed or publicized.”

These rules drew criticism from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

The policy is “unacceptably vague, and could be applied to require students planning just about any event to jump through extra bureaucratic hoops,” Laura Beltz, the director of policy reform, told The Fix via email.