College students at Iowa State and Penn State fervently celebrated Osana bin Laden’s death on Sunday night, ignoring their school’s ban on spontaneous demonstrations. In each case, the police made no moves to halt the festivities.
Writing for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Adam Kissel questions the constitutionality of the colleges’ free speech zones, “While it is good that Penn State and Iowa State did not employ their policies to shut down last night’s activities (at least the legal ones), one has to wonder: would the schools do the same when the spontaneous event is a protest of campus policies?” -db
From a commentary in FIRE, May 2, 2011, by Adam Kissel.