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Apparently, national ridicule on hasn't yet stopped Hinds Community College (HCC) in Mississippi from sticking to its unconstitutional policy of punishing students with "demerits" for swearing on campus—even in private conversations outside of class time.

That's right, HCC after his instructor overheard him say privately to another student after class that his grade on an assignment was "going to fuck up my entire GPA."

Some may wish that public colleges, or even the police, had the power to enforce "civility," or "courtesy," or whatever you want to call it when you tell people what you think they should or should not say, but the plain fact is that the First Amendment doesn't allow it. As the Supreme Court famously , "one man's vulgarity is another man's lyric." (See also Robert's recent post on the subject: )

Unfortunately, Rosenbloom recently learned that his final appeal within HCC was denied by President Clyde Muse. Muse's ignores his responsibility to uphold the First Amendment on campus and rejects Rosenbloom's appeal with reference only to "adequate due process." Well, the First Amendment applies to HCC through the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process, and Rosenbloom deserves the full protection of both. He has received neither.