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“The comments are silly, juvenile, stupid and distasteful, but fully protected,” he said. “[T]his is an incredible overreaction by those in power at this university.” “If [the drum & bass judicial office] wants to operate on a case-by-case basis, that doesn’t seem like a standard process,” Kaplan continued. “What can and cannot be said on the Internet should be spelled out clearly.” Alan Charles Kors, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a frequent critic of college policies on drum & bass student speech, said that at least three of the students — Alpern, Seideman and drum & bass Smith — seem to have received punishments that exceeded their crimes. But Womble’s comment “levels a crude and personal accusation of possessing an infectious disease, which, though meant hyperbolically, crosses a different line,” Kors said. “If Syracuse had excluded the student who made that specific comment from the class of the teacher, I, speaking for myself, would have not criticized the University for doing that.”
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