Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Campus free speech quashed

Column: Campus free speech quashed:
"Apparently handing out pocket Constitutions is a crime in the state of Michigan, or at least it is on the campus of Kellogg Community College.
Last fall, security officers at the Battle Creek school arrested students for doing just that.
The students were advocating for the Bill of Rights as officers ironically approached them and shut down their freedom of expression.
But this isn’t an isolated incident.
...At Young Americans for Liberty, I oversee cases similar to the one at Kellogg Community College on a daily basis.
The incident at Kellogg reflects a larger battle across the United States, and that’s why we’ve taken this case to federal court.
College speech codes like the one found at Kellogg Community College almost never hold up in court. 
Their vague nature opens the floodgates for bureaucratic handling that more often than not results in bias administration.
This often means discriminating against unfavorable opinions in pursuit of the personal agendas of college administrators.
These policies enable some of the gravest violations of the First Amendment on America’s young minds.
These speech codes rob America’s youth of freedom of thought and intellectual development..."

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