Auburn's censorship of Ron Paul poster is part of larger problem | The Daily Caller - Greg Lukianoff, President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)::
September 20, 2012 - "Auburn student Eric Philips made the mistake of hanging a Ron Paul poster in his window, just as he’d seen students do in support of President Obama and other causes throughout his time at Auburn. Within three hours he was told he needed to take it down. Auburn, recycling a claim that FIRE has gotten so used to seeing that we considered putting it on a company T-shirt, argued that the University was simply enforcing a “safety” policy that it had always had against window hangings....
"All Philips had to do to disprove Auburn’s safety claims was walk around campus taking pictures of window hangings left up after he received his speech-code surprise. It wasn’t hard to demonstrate that he had been singled out."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/auburns-censorship-ron-paul-poster-part-of-larger-problem/
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September 20, 2012 - "Auburn student Eric Philips made the mistake of hanging a Ron Paul poster in his window, just as he’d seen students do in support of President Obama and other causes throughout his time at Auburn. Within three hours he was told he needed to take it down. Auburn, recycling a claim that FIRE has gotten so used to seeing that we considered putting it on a company T-shirt, argued that the University was simply enforcing a “safety” policy that it had always had against window hangings....
"All Philips had to do to disprove Auburn’s safety claims was walk around campus taking pictures of window hangings left up after he received his speech-code surprise. It wasn’t hard to demonstrate that he had been singled out."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/20/auburns-censorship-ron-paul-poster-part-of-larger-problem/
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