What drives me nuts about stories like this — all too common alas — is that whenever the school or some other liberal institution gets in hot water, they condemn the transgression on purely pragmatic grounds. Remember the feminists who were outraged Clinton didn’t use a condom with his intern? Or remember the administrators at the San Francisco Art Institute who objected to a disgusting “class” involving a gay sex show in which all sorts of repugnant stuff took place, including the free exchange of each others fecal matter? The school opposed the class because it was unsanitary (See my “In Defense of Bob Jones University”). So in this case the administrators are peeved with the professor who told kids to write emails saying “kill the president, kill the president” because it put students at risk. Fine, fine. That’s one reason it’s stupid. But can’t the school’s vice president also say that the intended idea behind the project was idiotic and without merit too?