Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University in what university administrators there described as an event in the best American traditions of free speech. Earlier this week, however, a Columbus (Ohio) State Community College administrator expressly denied a request from student leaders to post a flier promoting Islamofascism Awareness Week amid what student leaders of the school’s chapter of the Terrorism Awareness Project say is a growing atmosphere of censorship and intimidation by college officials. The contrast between an Iranian dictator given an open forum at one of our country’s premiere academic institutions and students at a public college denied access to their own campus couldn’t be more stark.
Student leaders told me that they are concerned about what appears to be hostility from some members of the college administration due solely to their group’s anti-terror message after repeated incidents of administrative censorship and bureaucratic obstruction of their events. “Columbus State is clearly engaging in a double standard when it comes to our material,” said Lanning. “There has been no want of graphic anti-war and anti-Bush administration material on campus, and yet it seems we are constantly being singled out only because of the content of our speech.”
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