Dori: Prof files free speech suit against UW’s required ‘native land’ statement; calls it ‘hollow’

When the University of Washington started requiring professors to give their students a course syllabus statement acknowledging the campus “sits on occupied land” of Coastal Salish native people, computer science teaching professor Stuart Reges pushed back with a statement version of his own.

Now, Reges told The Dori Monson Show he’s filed suit in federal court to back it up.

“I have always been opposed to limits on free speech,” Reges said.

The issue started in September 2020 when the UW’s diversity committee began requiring an “Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Statement” to be included in course materials, the professor told Dori’s Thursday listeners.

Reges disagrees with both what’s in the

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