A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.
But the judges in the 2 to 1 decision disagreed on whether posts on a personal Facebook page about a course and one s classmates qualify as speech over which an academic institution can discipline a student. Central to the rationale of those upholding the college s decision was that the student was enrolled in a health professions program with a code of ethics.
ACLU free-speech icon Ira Glasser profiled in new film
Nico Perrino was only 26 when he met two giants in the history of the American Civil Liberties Union: Ira Glasser, its executive director from 1978 to 2001, and Norman Siegel, the leader of the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1985 to 2000.
At the time, in 2017, Perrino was a couple of years into working for FIRE, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that defends the civil liberties of students and faculty. (Its full name is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.)
As such, he was aware of the ACLU’s vast expansion under Glasser and its role in broadening the First Amendment’s protection for free expression for all Americans. But he knew little about the specific battles these men, and their allies, had fought. And he was deeply concerned about the growth of hate speech in American life.
You Will Attend This Play If You Are a Freshman at Greensboro College
Rude behavior at a play could end in expulsion; crude laughter at the wrong things is a punishable offense; and heckling is now sexual harassment. At least that is the way it might be playing out in Greensboro College, North Carolina.
As part of a new sexual misconduct policy (which conforms to the ideology that there is an epidemic of rape on college campuses), Greensboro mandates Freshmen attend a play about sexual violence called, “It Stops Here.” Some athletes were forced to attend by their coaches.
The immature 17-18 year old boys in the audience, who were forced to attend, laughed inappropriately, called one actor a fag, and made comments such as, “it was consensual”, while one was heard to whisper, “whore bitch.”
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