Cristen Crew's recent editorial on the wacky situation down in HI caught me entirely off-guard. I'm amazed I hadn't heard about this on national news outlets, instead I stumble on this ridiculous story by way of the internet, which actually makes sense, as the internet is the only acceptable place for this particular breed of crazy.
If you haven't read her article, the story is that some administrators at the University of Hawaii barred two students from distributing copies of the US constitution to their classmates. Seriously. Not drugs or the answers to the pop-quiz, it was US constitutions.. Dang. Their Poli-sci classes must be wicked hard.
So, naturally, the two students are suing the balls off the University. The students are using the same lawyer, Davis Tremaine, that recently won $50k in a similar case against the Modesto Junior College in California. Its appears to be mainly a question of how the students were approaching their peers rather than what they were handing out, but the case is likely feature the constitutional aspect very heavily.
Cristen does a great job of explaining the situation, despite how unbelievable it seems, this really is going on and it took this article for me to hear about it, which prompted me to do some further study about the case. It also brought to light some of the implications of the 'Free-Speech Zones' we've been seeing get implemented at schools and government facilities.
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