Update on Marquette Censorship Blog

Almost 300 signatures were submitted in a petition to the University officials and The Marquette Tribune about the blog incident.

Because of the high publicity of the blog censorship scandal, the Director of Educational Development and Assessment, who's in charge of teaching evaluations sent out an e-mail to all students that their answers will be held confidential.

One interesting point is that the Marquette Student Government is siding with the administration in suspending the dental student for his blog comments. In other words, SG action on this, as reported by other blogs at Marquette, has been effectively zero.

For the SG, while they conceded that the University may have the right to limit certain types of speech, it should have noted that the punishment does not fit the crime. How can such a thing result in being suspended for at least two semesters, he loses his scholarship and has to pay part of it back to the school, and it stays on his record permanently. At least the student government should upheld the right of the student to free expression without undue consequence that is considered unjustly.

Comments

Posted by: John McAdams
Posted on: December 14, 2005 05:27 PM

It's not really the case that Student Government sided with the University.

The student bloggers are unhappy that the Student Government conceded that in some instances the University might have a right to limit speech.

Marquette Student Government Acts to Protect Student Speech