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Today FIREannounces some exciting additions to our .

We are very pleased to announce the launch of our much-anticipated "Freedom on Campus" student video contest, where students from around the country have the opportunity to produce a short documentary on free speech controversies at their schools and win a $5,000 scholarship. FIREcan enter online, or print out the entry form here and mail it to:

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Attn: Student Video Contest
601 Walnut Street, Suite 510
Philadelphia, PA 19106.

This is a great chance for students to get involved promoting liberty and sustaining individual rights on their campuses. Along with the $5,000 grand prize, the winner will receive an all-expenses paid invitation to the 2009 Campus Freedom Network Conference and will be featured on ÃÛÖ­ÏãÌÒ's website. Two runners-up will receive $1,000 scholarships. FIREis excited about the use of multimedia to spread the word about abuses to free speech rights on campuses and has already produced several about cases FIREhas dealt with recently. These films can all be viewed on our .

We are also pleased to unveil the of the award-winning PBS television series Voices of Vision featuring ÃÛÖ­ÏãÌÒ. This 30-minute documentary highlights ÃÛÖ­ÏãÌÒ's cases at Le Moyne College, where a graduate student was expelled for defending corporal punishment in the classroom; SUNY Fredonia, where a professor was denied promotion for publicly disagreeing with the university's student conduct policies and affirmative action practices; and the University of New Hampshire, where a student was evicted from his dorm and forced to live out of his car for posting a flyer that joked about the "freshman 15." The film also gives a fresh, inside look into the daily operations of the FIREoffice, the jobs of ÃÛÖ­ÏãÌÒ's staff, and the way FIREselects cases.

FIRE will continue adding new videos to the multimedia page in the future, so stay tuned!