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2016? More Like ā1984ā for Student Athletes

Āé¶¹“«Ć½IOSās Samantha Harris for the New York Daily News, published online last night, that explores the growing number of cases in which universities punish for engaging in constitutionally protected speech. While recognizing that āstudent athletes agree to increased regulation of their lives in exchange for the ability to represent their university on an athletic team,ā Sam argues that, in some instances, universities go too far:
[T]here must be some limits on the universityās ability to intrude upon its athletesā rights. A university cannot claim to be a bastion of freedom and openness and then operate like a totalitarian state with regard to its athletes. After all, theyāre students, too.
Sam argues that while universities can regulate speech that the student athletes engage in while publicly representing the university, they cannot declare all of a studentās private communications to be fair game for investigation and sanction simply because that student is also an athlete.
To read more about this issue, be sure to check out over at the New York Daily News.
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