Phi Beta Cons

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice

Century College in Minnesota seems to have given up on free academic inquiry. An e-mail from the college’s vice president lays out a new policy for bulletin postings. Keen readers will recall that a bulletin board is exactly where Professor Karen Murdock posted the twelve Mohammed cartoons several months ago, whereupon she was promptly censored. The new rules impose significant restrictions on what can be posted, and allow administrators to censor certain types of content.

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