What does it tell you about American college campuses when the campus police are more sensitive to individual liberties and rights than the professorate and the administration? Some students produced fliers critical of the student Palestinian association and the pro-Palestinian students claimed they were victims of hate speech.
The university administration took this position:
The fliers … were in violation of the university’s policy on free speech ….
“There’s such a thing as free speech,” [Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement] said. “But when you post things anonymously and make others feel threatened, that’s not free speech.”
The police had this to say:
A University of Maryland Police spokesman reports that the department concluded that, “Basically, these fliers were free speech, [p]lain and simple.”
