she engaged in hyperbole to excess, but as she phrased it as her own desire/opinion, rather than a statement of fact, I am unsure there is a problem with what she said.
on the other hand... Chechnyans are often enough blonde-and-blue, and they also practice -ah!- "explosive diplomacy", so RACIAL profiling is probably not a particularly wise option.
strip-searching anyone who refuses to step on a Koran or eat a ham sandwich, otoh, might make a lot of sense.
I agree that her remarks are immature, not well written, and needed editing. But that's not why she was dismissed, and we all know it. I haven't seen the resulting press coverage, so I don't know if she was made a heroine or not. I would be willing to bet you a steak dinner at Morton's that other equally poor writers have written equally poor articles in the school rag from a leftist slant, and they remain on staff.