@hawkeye10,
Hawkeye wrote:The word has never gotten out to the students at state funded universities that that are not allowed to be political. Student politics had a huge effect at universities during the sixties, but almost never did anyone go so low as to claim that these students did not have political rights, or the right specifically to political expression.
Having been a student in university in the 1960s, there's nothing you can tell me about it. Right along side the leftwing SDS was the rightwing YAF, and by the terms of university policies, their activities were illegal without prior consent by the university authorities. This was often made clear when campus police or local police stepped in. The Kent State incident made it clear that the National Guard could be called in, too, and Kent State was simply notorious, it wasn't the only incident during which the National Guard were called in. At Southern Illinois University in 1970, Delyte Morris, the President of SIU, asked for the National Guard, who literally took over the entire town, and the university was shut down with the entire student body expelled, and Morris' career ended.
You're not very good at this sort of thing. I did not at any time say that people don't have the right of political expression. I did not at any time say that students have no right to be political. I did point out that universities, especially state-supported universities, have policies, which are legal, which control what kind of political expression is permitted, and the circumstance under which it is permitted.
At such time as you have a response to that, and which doesn't involve the attempt to put words in my mouth that i haven't said, perhaps there will be something to discuss.
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