“If a public university censored its student newspaper because it was going to print news of the school’s dismal result in FIRE’s free-speech rankings, it’s the most ironic First Amendment violation imaginable,” said Ilya Shapiro, a libertarian constitutional law expert at the Manhattan Institute.
Indiana University fires student newspaper adviser who refused to suppress news articles
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"The ‘flag policy' is a pretext for silencing student expression," Mr. Shapiro said. "The student organizers would thus have contractual claims against the university, but the First Amendment and other federal civil-rights protections also apply because CUA accepts federal funding."
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