Colleges have become the worst defenders of free speech and the Constitution and have not been reprimanded as they should be. The PC world keeps glorifying them and they keep trying to get their respect - geez! When are they going to acknowledge that there are always two sides to an issue, not likely I’d imagine! Until the PC police (the news folks, the politicians and the idiots with their partisan issues) go away, it will never happen. We may well end up with censorship by the masses of PC idiots - what a mess that will be - and that mess seems to be growing!
Please teach the Constitution in Grade School as it never seems to become prominent in later years!
Its not a Constitutional issue, Bucknell is not the government, they can make any rules they want.
However, the fact that administrators reacted to undoubtedly crude, simple language with the extreme measure of expulsion (which, when I went to a Bucknell-like school in a simpler time was nearly impossible) reflects a disorder in the thinking of intellectuals which runs very deep and is implicated in all sorts of problems.
I presume these young scholars insulted blacks in a crude manner. It's most unlikely that making fun, especially drunken fun, of Jews, Mexicans, Asians, PRs or other minorities could have resulted in expulsion.
What is it about blacks, ESPECIALLY about permitting a negative stereotype to bubble to the surface, that provokes such hysteria?