Our friends at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education have some new concerning the “First University to Produce Urinetown“:
The University of North Carolina?Greensboro (UNCG) is attempting to discipline two students for peacefully protesting outside two small ?free speech zones? on campus. Ironically, the students were actually protesting the existence of those zones, which unconstitutionally restrict free speech.
LR readers are of course already familiar with UNCG’s tidy way of handling that icky, messy free-speech stuff.
In fact, I had already named it one of this year’s Top 10 Nuttiest Campus Events in N.C. (here’s last year’s list). Here’s what I had written:
5. Presumably the Rest of the Campus Is the Tyranny Zone. UNC-Greensboro designated two spots on campus as “Free Speech Zones” ? forgetting that as a public university, the whole campus is a free speech zone per the Bill of Rights and N.C.’s Constitution.
Looks like this additional nuttiness will require me to bump UNCG’s ranking up a bit. The good news for UNCG is that in these waning days of 2005, they’re not likely to out-nut UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for the Rehabilitation of John Edwards’ Political Career.
