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Badger Backlash
by: Deborah Lambert, March 24, 2008

Wisconsin-based author/scholar/radio talker Charles Sykes reports that even at the liberal-left bastion known as the University of Wisconsin, students are refusing to be held hostage by the pc zealots.

One major breakthrough: conservative students and their moderate allies now hold a voting majority in the Student Senate.

Of course, hurdles still exist. Last year when conservative groups sponsored a visit by former terrorist Walid Shoebat to speak on �Why I Left Jihad,� the Muslim Student Association demanded that the event be canceled.

The administration eventually gave a green light to the event, but slapped a $2500 �security fee� on the sponsoring groups.

Not so fast, said the students. This sounds a lot like muzzling free speech to us.

Marquette University Law Professor Rick Esenberg agreed. He wrote that �the administration�s decision to charge conservatives an excessive fee was unconstitutional.�

While he acknowledged that a public university �may impose reasonable time, place and manner regulations, it does not get to engage in viewpoint discrimination� adding that �it can�t set fees based upon an assessment of the speaker�s views and the likely reaction to it.�

The university waived the fee.

Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia.

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