Over at FIRE’s blog, there’s a good dissection of an incident of censorship at Penn State University. School officials apparently cancelled the opening of a student art exhibit because it was “based mainly on the conflict in Palestinian territories, raises questions concerning the destruction of Jewish religious shrines, anti-Semitic propaganda and cartoons in Palestinian newspapers, the disregard for rules of engagement and treatment of prisoners, and the indoctrination of youth into terrorist acts.”
Rather than admitting to censorship, of course, those responsible for it attempted to explain away their repression with a euphemism: “Charles Garoian, professor and director of the School of Visual Arts, said [the exhibit’s] controversial images did not mesh with the university