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Check out over at Reason blog 'Hit & Run' about ������ýapp�ٷ�'s case at Lake Superior State College. Nick writes:

FIRE has always made a consistent argument (and has defended scholars and the right and the left) that public universities, precisely because they are government-sponsored, are totally bound by the First Amendment in ways that private universities are not necessarily (yeah, yeah, I understand that the line between public and private is totally nebulous given various funding issues ranging from federal research grants to Pell grants, etc).

I agree with that argument, and think that Crandall and all profs should be allowed to put whatever they want on their doors. Indeed, the whole point of going to college may be to expose kids to hostile environments—or, rather, intellectual environments in which they are exposed to all sorts of perspectives and taught to think critically about every aspect of their lives.

Thank you, Nick. Torch readers, while you're over there, feel free to jump into the fray in the . It seems some people, no matter what we do, will never understand FIREor the principles for which we stand. For people who are sincerely interested in ������ýapp�ٷ�'s issues and prefer their info in video form, I recommend , which includes an , our appearance on PBS's , and our video on the Valdosta State University case.