“Likewise, I don’t think that the State government can abridge the freedom of lawful speech. I believe that expulsion from the University of Oklahoma based purely on socially objectionable speech is unsustainable.”
If the U of O were a private institution, it could do as they please, but this is a publicly supported institution and therefore has to completely observe the First Amendment.
“If the U of O were a private institution, it could do as they please, but this is a publicly supported institution and therefore has to completely observe the First Amendment.”
That is absolutely not true.
A student would be expelled if he went to each class every day and stop up and sang the song about hanging black people from trees.
A student would be expelled if he exercised his right of free speech by plagiarizing a paper for a class.