A preacher showed up on campus a couple of weeks ago. He comes every spring and preaches in the quad about the ills of sexual immorality. We are a public university, and he has the First Amendment right to speak freely on public land. This is exactly the argument he was trying to make as the campus police dragged him away.
We have a large stone in the quad, and there is a tradition of students spray painting messages on it. It was fun to see what students would come up with every time. Then the administration introduced a new regulation that every message has to be pre-approved. You have to file paperwork and wait for your message to be studied and deemed appropriate. That kind of killed the whole long-standing tradition right there.
There are no rights without power.
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