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Giving Credit Where Credit鈥檚 Due
As we鈥檝e pointed out repeatedly here on The Torch, erstwhile Le Moyne College student Scott McConnell has been restored to his rights, and Le Moyne certainly doesn鈥檛 deserve any credit for that. Far from it: Le Moyne has done everything in its power to keep McConnell out. Even now, it is appealing Wednesday鈥檚 court decision.
But there are at least two other organizations that deserve credit for standing up for liberty in this case. One obvious example is the , which so ably represented McConnell in court. And another is the , headed by FIREBoard of Advisors member T. Kenneth Cribb. As our CN friend Colin Sharkey reminded FIRErecently, 鈥淪cott鈥檚 experience won Le Moyne College the top prize in the Collegiate Network鈥檚 Campus Outrage Awards for 2005, popularly known as The Pollys.鈥 And simply perusing 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 page on this case will show why that mattered: Le Moyne鈥檚 Polly earned the college lots of well-deserved negative media attention.
FIRE thanks the CN for bringing so much attention to Le Moyne鈥檚 repression. Beyond that, we also encourage all friends of liberty to start thinking about other nefarious acts of censorship to nominate for next year鈥檚 .
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