Victory Over an Angry Mob Week in Higher Education
Your weekly report on campus news.
The Gibson Bakery vs. Oberlin College case just got more interesting.
- Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson’s Bakery case
- Oberlin College to Jury: We’re cash poor and big punitive award to Gibson’s Bakery will hurt students
- Punitive damage verdict against Oberlin College “was like a seismic wave moving quickly through the courtroom”
The story generated tons of interest.
- The Internet Reacts to Whopping Punitive Damages Judgment Against Oberlin College in Defamation Case
- Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College: “The jury held accountable an unhinged progressive activist college …
- VIDEO: Campus Reform Interviews Professor Jacobson About the Gibson Bakery vs. Oberlin Case
There were plenty of other crazy campus stories this week.
- University of Arkansas to Place Menstrual Products in Campus Men’s Rooms
- Report: U. Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Bias Response Team Functions as Speech Police
- Man Flees the United States to Escape $30,000 in Student Loan Debt
I’m sensing a trend.
- 2020 Dem Hopeful Pete Buttigieg has Large Amount of College Debt
- 2020 Democrat Hopeful Eric Swalwell Still Has Significant College Debt
Good news for free speech.
- U.S. Senators Show Support for Campus Free Speech Resolution
- Alabama Governor Signs Bill Banning Free Speech Zones From Public College Campuses
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott Signs New Law Protecting Campus Free Speech
You don’t say.
How odd…
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And, of course, Salon weighs in:
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/14/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bizarre-lawsuit-between-oberlin-college-and-a-local-bakery/
“Alison Schary, First Amendment lawyer at Davis Wright Tremaine, called the verdict “deeply troubling.”
“Holding universities financially liable for student speech will inevitably lead them to police and censor that speech, creating a chilling effect that is antithetical to the First Amendment,” Schary told Salon.”
Someone hasn’t been paying attention.
I see that Salon doesn’t care about getting anything right either–and they’ve drunk the Kool aid that this was all about freedom of speech rather than a mob being led by Dean Raimondo to protect some shoplifters.
“Once you lose your integrity, the rest is simple.” JR Ewing.