Leslie Strohm is vice chancellor and general counsel for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which denied recognition to a Christian fraternity that wouldn’t sign the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

Jon Gould is director of the Center for Justice, Law and Society at George Mason University in Virginia and author of Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2005).

Robert Smith is the director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs at Penn State University.

Nadine Strossen is a professor at New York Law School and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has written extensively about constitutional law and civil liberties and about students’ rights.

Janet R. Jakobsen is associate professor and director of the Center for Research on Women at Barnard College in Columbia University, New York. She co-authored Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (Beacon Press, 2004).

Harvey Silverglate, a Boston attorney, is co-founder of FIRE. He co-authored The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses (Harper Perennial, 1999) and FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2005).

Ask Bruce Reitman, dean of student affairs at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., about the problems for universities when they are asked to choose between the rights of gays and lesbians and freedom of association for religious groups. The meeting of such divergent opinions is an opportunity for students and faculty to enrich a university […]

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, based in Madison, Wis., is an evangelical campus mission serving some 35,000 students and faculty at about 560 colleges and universities. See a map of local chapters. Contact media coordinator Gordon Govier via the website.

Sheldon “Shelley” E. Steinbach is former vice president and general counsel for the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., and works for Education Industry Reporter. He says campuses must ensure that their nondiscrimination policies are applied fairly and consistently. The conflict between religious rights and individual rights is difficult and not clear-cut, he says.