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Kicked Out for Racism

January 26, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
January 23, 2018

Note: This article contains explicit and potentially offensive terms that are essential to reporting on this situation.

The cases were similar and the punishment was the same.

Not even three years ago, many Americans applauded as the University of Oklahoma kicked out two fraternity members for their role in helping lead a racist chant that was recorded and went viral.  But despite popular support for that decision and the shuttering of the campus chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, legal experts said the institution had actually flouted the students' First Amendment rights, which protects even the vilest of speech.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.

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