Posted by Eugene Volokh:
SUNY-Binghamton "Abandons Attempt to Suspend or Expel" Student Critic:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_11_16-2008_11_22.shtml#1226951318
The [1]Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reports:
Binghamton University (formerly SUNY�Binghamton) has abandoned its
attempt to suspend or expel a student who put up posters
challenging the Department of Social Work. The department had
ordered that social work master's student Andre Massena leave the
program for one year with no guarantee of return, required him to
apologize, and demanded that he publicly disavow his own views
after his pseudonymous posters challenged the department for having
hired the executive director of the Binghamton Housing Authority
(BHA) -- an agency Massena thought was responsible for social
injustice. When Massena appealed, the department's chair added
entirely new allegations and recommended his expulsion. The
department dropped the charges late Friday, one day after the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took the case
public.
For more on this case, see the FIRE press release and its links, or
the post linked to below under Related Posts.
References
1. http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/9945.html
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