Two interesting e-mails that say very different things:

Emailer 1:

It may be important for you to say not to neglect your studies! The lefties act like classes come second. There is the danger of overstating the global significance of little fights that rarely make the papers, when you could be sharpening your saw for truly important battles if you make it to NRO and other outfits so vital on the national scene …

Emailer 2:

I saw your bleg on the corner, and a relatively obscure (at least in the
minds of many current college students) but very important victory came out
of Michigan in the early 1990’s. Michigan’s speech code was one of the most
restrictive in the country. Students could be punished for almost any
non-PC speech (of course, PC was in its infancy with DeSouza’s book just
hitting the racks). The one example I recall was that a student who laughed
at a joke about a fellow classmate who stuttered was a “harasser.”
Anyway, it really is a victory for conservative activism. Wesley Wynne, who
was then a graduate student at Michigan, sued the University, claiming that
the speech code violated his first amendment rights. Win was a Teaching
Assistant and wanted to cover some sociological studies that could be
construed to prove that women were inferior to men in some respects. (he
didn’t endorse them, but only wanted to discuss their merits).
Long story short, Wynne won and Michigan’s speech code was truck down. The
ruling started a domino effect, and Universities across the country
substantially reworked their speech codes.

The two emails, obviously aren’t diametrically opposed or anything, but lean in different directions, surely. And it’s Thursday night, and I’m trying to keep awake…