'The Supreme Court soon will be asked yet again to teach college administrators that they may not deny the First Amendment freedom of speech to students who voice unpopular opinions. The justices ought to accept the petition, with alacrity.' -dcexaminer
Plaintiffs are preparing to ask the court to overturn an awful May 31 decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Speech First, Inc. v. Sands. The petitioners say, with overwhelming justification, that a system using a “bias-response team” at Virginia Tech is an unconstitutional effort to deter speech the university dislikes.
A male student fell foul of a bias team because he said female students in a snowball fight were “not athletic.” Another told a joke about a former men's Olympic decathlon champion, referring to Bruce Jenner rather than Caitlyn Jenner, which is the athlete's new name. Bias-response teams are intimidating because each of the members represents a body that can dole out punishments. These include representatives of the dean of students, the Office for Equity and Accessibility, the Office for Inclusion and Diversity, and even the Virginia Tech Police Department. The teams report speech they don't like to an office that monitors violations of federal Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in education.
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