Thomas Jefferson said that if forced to choose between having a government and having a free press, he'd pick the latter. Brandeis prefers a complacent student government. Following the expos , one senator destroyed copies of the publication while another threatened editor Bryan Rudnick with physical violence. After cutting the publication's funding by 50 percent last semester as a punishment for its dissenting views, the senate totally defunded Freedom in April. Marxist, feminist, homosexual and other sanctioned perspectives all are funded from compulsory activity fees.
Conservatism is where proponents of diversity draw the line.
As at Wellesley, the Brandeis administration tacitly condones this bias. At a school named for the Supreme Court justice known for his expansive view of the First Amendment, this is indeed ironic. Perhaps Brandeis should be renamed Comstock U., to honor the Nineteenth Century book-burner. Silverglate believes student censors are doing administrators' bidding. If the campus paper published racist tracts, for instance, funding wouldn't last five minutes.