Common Sense Foundation is a new public interest law firm patterned on the Landmark Legal Foundation, but a foundation which will focus on first and fourteenth amendment rights at the college level. Jr. Common Sense's directors include the Honorable William E. Simon, former Secretary of the Treasury, and President, The John M. Olin Foundation, the Honorable Robert L. Livingston, former Chair of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee and President, The Livingston Group, James D. Bishop, Chairman, Caithness Resources, Inc., Phineas Sprague, Chairman, Restore Our Associational Rights, Inc., W. Roberts Wilson, Principal, Wilson Law Firm and David K. Easlick, Jr., President, Rampant Lion Foundation. Bureaucratic administrators have a vested interest in their bureaucratic tranquility.
Students have a vested interest in earning their degrees and getting on with their lives.
In the field of litigation, colleges and universities will generally out-spend anybody who sues them. This has been a wide-spread college and university practice for decades. Generally, students cannot afford to stand up for their rights because they cannot afford the legal representation that they deserve and need. As long as college administrators know that students cannot afford to insist on their rights, college administrators will continue to violate basic human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of association. This is not only bad for the students, it is disastrous for the academic community.