Congratulations, OU, In Your Outrage You Just Violated the Law

[J.B. TexasEx]

Although what the SAE's did was despicable, it appears to me that OU violated their own code, as well as the First Amendment and the boys' right to due process in their handling of the matter.

Texas had a similar, though perhaps not as bad, situation that recently arose with the Fijis. My view is that Texas handled that situation much better than OU handled this one.

In fairness to OU, the media didn't get their hands on a damning video for people to go crazy over. All UT got was paper and that doesn't play well on TV or social media. IMO, the Fiji situation was as bad as the SAE scandal. Unless, of course, you think offending Hispanics and gays is okay.

But, yeah, we definitely handled it better without the sanctimonious grand-standing and appeasement by Stoops & Boren. 

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/texas_frat_bans_fagetry_and_interracial_dating

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

UPDATE: The university president (Boren) wrote that the students are being expelled for “your leadership role in leading a racist and exclusionary chant which has created a hostile educational environment for others.†But there is no First Amendment exception for racist speech, or exclusionary speech, or — as the cases I mentioned above — for speech by university students that “has created a hostile educational environment for others.â€

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/03/10/no-a-public-university-may-not-expel-students-for-racist-speech/

 

[The Bry-Man81]

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[shotime73]

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why am i not surprised? knew this was coming