[Sndbox] Another casualty of free speech

[Charles]

Dormitories at Stanford University in California have restricted student publications' access to the residences because some Latino students were offended by a recent column comparing the Mexican student group MEChA to the Ku Klux Klan, reports the Stanford Daily.

In an editorial titled "MEChA: Social Justice Group or KKK?" The Stanford Review called the Chicano student group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan "a racist organization that advocates revolution and segregation," dubbing it "the modern-day Ku Klux Klan of Chicanos."

Members of the group said the characterization hurt their feelings and was libelous. Following the fracas, staffers at two dorms decided to prohibit student publications from slipping copies under residents' doors. Those groups must now leave publications at dorms' main entrances.

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