[marron]

No need to expel them. They’ll depart on their own. They’ve soiled their own nests.

[Regal]

I’m fairly certain that a dean has discretion in expelling unruly students.

I saw Dean Wormer do it to the Deltas....

[OneWingedShark]

Question: Why is this a Constitutional issue?
Is the university a government organization, under the jurisdiction of the federal constitution?
Or perhaps it is a State institution?

(And, if it is part of the government [federal or state], which branch does ‘University’ fall under?)

[Oliviaforever]

Expelled students will never sue the University of Oklahoma.
They will not sue because they do not want to go to a court room and make fools of themselves.

[jrd]

here is a good link on why Boren is wrong http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/415186/congratulations-university-oklahoma-your-outrage-you-just-violated-law-david-french?fb_action_ids=10203963646715403&fb_action_types=og.shares

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Rule #1: There is always a camera on you!

Rule # 2: When there is NOT a camera on you, refer to rule Number one!

Freedom of speech is dead in America.

[nathanbedford]

In addition to the points made in this article and to the points made in the excellent article by Andrew McCarthy referred to in the body of this article, I would like to add another point. It is quite right to say that exhortation to violence is not constitutionally protected free speech. McCarthy makes that point quite clear in his article.

What academics who control these universities are doing, however, is something quite different: they are attempting to squelch free speech, not by invoking the doctrine that to incite violence is not protected free speech, they say quite the opposite, that the violent reaction of the listener in opposition to the speaker justifies withdrawing the constitutional right of free speech. This is quite a different matter. It moves the test away from an attempt to find a rational and objective standard for the protection or the suppression of speech, in this case the context which insightful speech is uttered, to an irrational and subjective standard, in this case the presumed subjective reaction of the listener.

Once the test becomes the real or even presumed subjective feelings of the listener, we have Ferguson Missouri on our nation's campuses. All the listener has to do is wax indignant and the utterer loses his right to speak. Objectivity is surrendered to militancy.

I have been complaining about this tendency in this forum for years. It is particularly dangerous in the hands of leftist school administrators who are manipulating vulnerable children.

[jimt]

Boot their asses out.

[Monorprise]

Apparently no free speech on campus. People should be held accountable for actions not words. It is simply telling of a university that claims a free speech academic atmosphere would try to suppress or expel any student for any speech rather than simply debate them.

Academic freedom means exploring and disputing ideas no matter how disreputable, condemned, or insulting not simply expelling the ones who happen to speak them. If any university cannot hold itself to that standard it has no business claiming any kind of academic freedom or openness.