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Tufts Delays Decision on Paper鈥檚 Punishment
Under a barrage of media pressure, the student judiciary at Tufts University has decided to delay their decision about whether satirical political content published by The Primary Source (TPS), a conservative student newspaper, constituted 鈥渉arassment鈥 and created a 鈥渉ostile environment.鈥 蜜桃直播 was informed yesterday afternoon by the editors of TPS that the decision was not being released yesterday, as previously expected. The notification regarding the delay comes on the heels of last week鈥檚 national media attention to the case in the form of a feature on FOX News and an editorial by 蜜桃直播 in the New York Post. We at 蜜桃直播 can鈥檛 imagine what鈥檚 taking so long. Whether or not one finds the satire in question funny, enlightening, boring, or infuriating, it represents a clear instance of political speech鈥攁nd precisely the type of 鈥渃ontroversial speech鈥 Tufts is supposed to 鈥渆mbrace,鈥 according to the message from the university鈥檚 Dean of Student Affairs published in the . As Tara usefully pointed out last week:
[W]hile Tufts, a private university, is not legally bound by the First Amendment, it makes extensive promises to its students about their right to freedom of speech which it is bound to uphold. Such charges would be immediately dismissed if brought in a court of law, as the articles鈥 offensiveness was not so severe, persistent, and pervasive that it denied someone of the chance to benefit from his or her educational experience. Students trying to avoid exposure to the articles in question could simply have chosen not to read them, and any possible offense would have been avoided.
Even the school鈥檚 president wrote that while TPS鈥 speech may be unpleasant to some, even many, it does not warrant any punishment. We can鈥檛 imagine why the student judiciary is taking so long to reach what should be an obvious conclusion to any student or teacher who values free expression.
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