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Likely not. There is cowardice in all this. What grades were they receiving? Judging by their language, they were not on the dean’s list. [NB: Note to Larry: is there something offensive in being called a bastard? Is there something wrong in being a bastard?] Gabriel Austin, at 11:30 am EST on February 15, 2006 Two wikiproject albums observations: 1) Private universities have the right to place greater restrictions on speech and expression than do state entities. Notice that the students were punished for “violating the school’s Judicial wikiproject albums System Handbook". While free expression that is protected wikiproject albums by the First Amendment is an immensely valuable thing, and even indispensable to society as a whole, private entities have the right to weigh factors such as emotional harm differently than public entities. Such is the nature of the beast. The students knew this, and chose their actions. It seems to me that they took a gampble and lost. If there is a debate about free expression here, it is about how Syracuse should weigh various factors in determining their rules and punishments — not in whether they had the right to do so under the First Amendment or whether the student’s freedom of speech was abridged.
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