The Schrammie: Taking a hatchet to the First Amendment
A college education is getting more and more expensive these days.
Over in Bremerton, the price paid is in the form of free speech.
And so I'd like to invite Olympic College administrators to 1: research the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 2: write a 10-page paper and then 3: come on down.
About a year ago, a group of protesters showed up on the Olympic College campus to demonstrate against abortion.
The folks from the "Anti-Choice Project" brought with them some very graphic photographs of aborted fetuses.
It created quite the philosophical ruckus.
Over the summer months, the college decided to bend the First Amendment to its own liking and set up some new rules regarding protests.
Those rules include protestors giving college officials advance notice of any protest and providing copies of any materials that might be used so that those materials can be reviewed, presumably so they can be edited and/or disallowed.
So for teaching college kids that if you don't like what people say (or how they say it), you can just toss out whatever portions of the Constitution you don't find appealing, I'd like to ask the Olympic College president and all of his scholarly cohorts to stand up and take a bow, because this "Schrammie" is for you.
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Over in Bremerton, the price paid is in the form of free speech.
And so I'd like to invite Olympic College administrators to 1: research the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 2: write a 10-page paper and then 3: come on down.
About a year ago, a group of protesters showed up on the Olympic College campus to demonstrate against abortion.
The folks from the "Anti-Choice Project" brought with them some very graphic photographs of aborted fetuses.
It created quite the philosophical ruckus.
Over the summer months, the college decided to bend the First Amendment to its own liking and set up some new rules regarding protests.
Those rules include protestors giving college officials advance notice of any protest and providing copies of any materials that might be used so that those materials can be reviewed, presumably so they can be edited and/or disallowed.
So for teaching college kids that if you don't like what people say (or how they say it), you can just toss out whatever portions of the Constitution you don't find appealing, I'd like to ask the Olympic College president and all of his scholarly cohorts to stand up and take a bow, because this "Schrammie" is for you.
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