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Penn State: Pulling the Wool over Your Eyes
Today, in , Penn State attempted to play damage control after significantly altering two patently unconstitutional policies. In what is probably the lamest justification for doing so, the Penn State tried to claim that, 鈥淭hese changes do appear to match up well with the interests of the plaintiff鈥ut the revision would have been made in this manner regardless of any legal action.鈥
So the fact that Penn State was sued in federal court had absolutely nothing to do with an abrupt alteration in policies? Next time, Penn State might want to make sure that the revision history of and matches their story. The truth is that these polices have been around, in substantially the same form, since the early 1990s. This makes it extraordinarily hard to believe that the changes were merely routine revisions; if so, why did it take more then a decade to change the policies? It isn鈥檛 very hard to see through Penn State鈥檚 apparent ruse.
Would it really be so difficult for Penn State to just say, 鈥淲e recognize that we have a legal and moral right to ensure a free exchange of ideas on campus, so we altered the policies accordingly鈥?
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