There are rules for behavior that people agree to behavior attending any school. Read the fine print. Their guidelines for expulsion cover how a good student should behave.speed dawg said:Frats aren't exactly private, but this:
.....could be grounds for a law suit. If I were those boys, I'd sue the sh*t out of OU. You can't expel someone for being racist. You can disband a frat chapter and yank their charter, but you can't expel someone. It's insanity.
Source please?Stagger Lee said:The OU President (who happens to be a liberal and bisexual) disbanded the SAE fraternity, shut down their building and order it's members to vacate in 24 hours. Then he has already expelled two students. This is what I'm objecting to. You do your research.
Because MANY articles are stating that the presidents actions came AFTER the national HQ disbanded the frat. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...y-members-university-oklaho-article-1.2142389
I say again, brush up on your Con Law. Fighting words is not protected speech. So what rights are infringed upon here?Again OU severed all ties with SAE, evicted its members and expelled some of them from the college. OU is an agent of the government. It's state funded and largely state controlled.
Also, just because the government cannot infringe upon a right doesn't mean a private entity can, not that OU is completely a non-government entity. For instance, just because the constitution prohibits the government from searching one's home without a warrant, that doesn't mean it's okay for private entity like say your employer or neighborhood watch to do so.
Gimme a fvking break. This frat has a history of exclusionary practices and behavior. Again DO YOUR RESEARCH.How ridiculous can you get? What's considered "fighting words" to you, a recording of a private conversation you consider is offensive depending on who says it? By your logic rap music must be banned too on campuses. No one has been expelled or their greek organization shut down because they got into a verbal altercation. This case is the total opposite. No one in this case yelled "fire!" in a crowded theater. People can sing and yell "fire!" or how much they dislike or don't want to associate with someone else all they want among each other in semi-private per free speech. What you really don't have is free speech to say the N-word or anything non-PC only if you're white or male. PC is anti-free speech, racist and sexist.
So now on top of being known to discriminate, they sing bigoted songs with racial slurs and lynching references? Thats fighting words...and if they are going to exist at an educational institution they cant behave that way.
Read the fvking case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942). These frat kids were joyfully signing about lynching. THATS WHY fighting words applies here. Who gives a fvk if its in private. Its violent language. Let them do that at a private club...not within a frat on a public university.
Again...if they want to behave that way. They can do that if they are a part of a private club. They can not do that and represent a national fraternity at a public educational institution.Free speech isn't the right to verbally assault someone or cause panic, but is the right to say things some may find offensive without consequence or suppression or it's not free and is utterly meaningless.
The fraternity and university are free and right to enforce rules of equality and civility. You bring bad PR to the organizations you are supposed to represent, and you will be banished. Thats how it goes.
Let those little fvker kids take their hate to the KKK or some bigoted private organization. Then they can have all the free hateful speech they want.