A U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner caused a stir when he justified restrictions on First Amendment rights for students on the state of their brain development. Commissioner Michael Yaki also justified prohibitions on speech in some instances given distasteful and racist activities common on university campuses. (Campus Reform, August 5, 2014, by Kaitlyn Schallhorn)
Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Right in Education responded to Yaki by reminding the commission that 18-year-olds vote and fight in wars and that great contributions to society emerge from graduate programs and that it makes no sense to limit speech based on a few students’ immature behavior when that would also limit the speech of a 45-year-old Ph.D. student. (Volokh Conspiracy, August 7;, 2014, by Eugene Volokh)