Over at FIRE’s blog, Tara Sweeney points out an article that appeared yesterday by Johns Hopkins University president William R. Brody, defending the decision to harshly punish a student for circulating an invitation to a Halloween party that some found offensive. As Sweeney points out, “Brody wants to limit the speech that Hopkins protects to that which is ‘serious’ and ‘substantive,’ and thereby rule out satire, jokes, and crude language, all of which he deems useless.”