Bare minimum: CMU satirists receive the proper punishment

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Two Carnegie Mellon University art students who marched nude in their school's Downhill Derby in April will have to serve 80 hours of community service in exchange for having charges of indecent exposure dropped. It is a wise compromise. Had Katherine B. O'Connor, 19, and Robb S. Godshaw, 22, been convicted on the second-degree misdemeanor charges, both would have been compelled by law to register as sex offenders in some states -- a ridiculous turn of events for students who believed their protest was protected by school tradition and First Amendment guarantees.