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One of the more interesting aspects of our case submissions is that a disproportionately high number come from 鈥渘ontraditional鈥 students鈥攖hose students who are older, married, or often have substantial work experience. Many of our more sensational and egregious cases鈥攊ncluding the recent ban on showing The Passion of the Christ at a college in Florida, Scott McConnell鈥檚 expulsion from Le Moyne College in New York, Bill Felkner鈥檚 troubles at Rhode Island College, and Jihad Daniel鈥檚 case at William Paterson University鈥攈ave involved students in their thirties, forties, and (in Daniel鈥檚 case) sixties.
 
I think there is a good reason for this phenomenon: nontraditional students have 鈥渞eal world鈥 experience and are less easily intimidated by academic threats than traditional undergraduate and graduate students. For an army vet like McConnell, the prospect of poor grades or expulsion holds a bit less terror than it does for a traditional undergrad. Since academic life is all many traditional undergrads know, academic success means everything.
 
Additionally, for many traditional students, the atmosphere of oppression and indoctrination that dominates so many of our universities is a mere extension of their high school experience. For these students, this is just the 鈥渨ay the world works,鈥 and they are unaware that alternatives exist (or even that the First Amendment actually prohibits many university policies and procedures). When I speak on campus, I am always amazed at the number of otherwise politically aware students who say, 鈥淚 had no idea that the university isn鈥檛 supposed to do that.鈥 On-campus speeches always result in a litany of tales of censorship.
 
As a consequence of this widespread ignorance, FIREis and will be putting more and more resources into its education efforts. Our Guides to Student Rights on Campus have been downloaded almost 100,000 times in the last two years, but that is still not enough. We will be targeting problem campuses for intensive education and advocacy efforts and鈥攖hrough the Spotlight database鈥攑rovide even greater levels of campus-specific information. It is vital that we reach the next generation of students鈥攁 generation that is censored and all too often sees nothing at all wrong with censorship.

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