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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Protect campus freedoms: CMU should retract charges and support free expression
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The academic, social and legal repercussions arising from two student performances during the 4th Annual Downhill Derby on the Carnegie Mellon University campus are most disconcerting. After complaints concerning nudity and criticism of the Catholic Church (most notably from Bishop David A. Zubik), campus police filed charges of indecent exposure against two young artists. The issues raised here are crucial to all universities and to the greater public.
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