My precious alma mater, Georgia Tech, seems to have run afoul of the First Amendment. Their speech code got taken down by a Federal Court after a couple of students brought suit. The case has been "tweaked" by the media, with one instance being a headline that reads, "Insults now allowed at Georgia Tech." Yes, that's true, but not exactly what the case was about. The suit was over the right of students to express their viewpoints, even if the campus orthodoxy disagreed. Please read this great letter from the two students involved in the suit, explaining their side of the story to a media that has been unwilling to give them a fair shake.

Edit: I just wanted to add on a bit to clarify for at least one reader that was confused and IMed. I knew more about this story than you would get from reading the letter, or some of the news stories. How about this, for an example of the offenses these people were suing over. At one point they protested the Vagina Monologues on campus. Silly, yes, but they have the right protest. Tech shut down the protest, however. At another point, many of the same conservative students participated in an "Affirmative Action Bakesale" in which people were charged different prices depending on their race/ethnicity, as many people seem to feel is alright in other realms, such as college admissions. They don't like it when it's thrown in their face how unjust such a system is, however, and an angry protest bordering on violence broke out. This time the bake sale got shut down instead of the protestors. Doesn't that sound like the school is picking sides based on their own subjective viewpoint? It also could be said that they bowed down to the more violent group, and thus the rewards of terrorism are once again demonstrated by authority. Which is not to say that any of these people are terrorists in any way, merely that violence, or the threat of it, has been shown to work better than peaceful protest at getting your way.