Friday, March 26, 2004

SMSU makes the Volokh Conspiracy

SMS (this is their prefered brand name), has been having a real problem with free speech of late. They have tried to create free speech zones. Now their Office of Thought Police (SMSU's Office of Equal Opportunity) is attacking the school newspaper for perfoming the function of a newspaper. Most outrageous, as far as I am concerned, is President Keiser's contention, "This is not a free speech issue. It's an education issue." I understand that running a large university means you will view the world through the lens of education, but there is this thing called the constitution, and it provides for this thing called Freedom of the Press. Further, this notion totally goes to reveal how much the university has abandoned the spirit of free enquiry in favor of extdending the high school model of in loco parentis by which students are regarded as children rather than citizens of the republic of letters.

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