“The Young Americans and other student groups called the new policy an attack on free speech.”
SMU is a private school and it has the right to exercise controls on political, social and religious displays on campus.
However, the SMU administration does not appear to be exercising common sense on this issue.
If it's a private school, doesn't it rely on the generosity of their alumni to keep some of the gravy train rolling there? A few moneyed alumni suddenly finding new places to donate and the administration might get the message.
If I were the "Young Americans for Freedom" group, I'd be making darned sure that these SMU alumni know of this new policy.
But, following the rules enforced by the left, if they accept even one penny of federal money either directly or indirectly through student aid, they have to follow a stack of federal regulations taller than the Empire State Building.
Just imagine if SMU decided to reduce the number of female sports scholarships to one less than the number of male scholarships they would have hundreds of lawyers suing based on Title IX. The only way to avoid these laws is to go the way of Hillsdale College.
Private school...with public money.