The lecture hall at UCLA can accommodate 300 students, but his department chair only allowed 200 students to enroll in Professor Keith Fink’s popular class on the First Amendment. Fink claims it’s because the administration is penalizing students to punish him. Fink employs the Socratic method in examining a wide range of free speech issues including professors’ trigger warnings, campus protests and speech codes. Fink took class time recently to criticize a vice chancellor’s position on posters posted on campus accusing the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine “of being murderers and terrorists.” (The College Fix, March 2, 2017, by Nathan Rubbelke)
The chair said class size limits are instituted to ensure that the TA can handily assess the students. One excluded student who attended every lecture and did the assignments in hopes of getting credit said she was going to fight her exclusion on the basis of viewpoint discrimination. (Campus Reform, February 27, 2917, by Kathryn Arnold)