What an idiot:
A North Carolina State University administrator is encouraging student leaders to censor speech they don’t like in a tunnel dedicated to free speech on campus.
In an email sent to all student group leaders Friday evening that was obtained by Campus Reform,Eileen M. Coombes, Director of Student Involvement, encouraged students to be creative while fighting against “social injustices and other forms of hate.”
“If you see hate speech or offensive language in the Free Expression Tunnel, cover that speech with the stencil, indicating that you, as a member of this community of scholars, will not stand for any form of hate at NC State.”
“One way to do so is through the new ‘State not Hate’ stencils now available in Student Involvement,” Coombes said in her email. “If you see hate speech or offensive language in the Free Expression Tunnel, cover that speech with the stencil, indicating that you, as a member of this community of scholars, will not stand for any form of hate at NC State.”
According to NC State’s website, the Free Expression Tunnel was built to curb random acts of graffiti around campus.
Luckily, some people on this campus still believe in the First Amendment:
“This is a blatant attack by [the Office of] Student Involvement instructing students to censors others’ speech on campus,” Ross Bradley, a senior at the university and the leader of NC State’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter, told Campus Reform. “In a spot where free speech is supposed to be respected, our school is suppressing our rights.”
