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A First Amendment advocacy group filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech on Thursday, alleging that the school s policies suppress its students free speech and expression.
The suit, filed in Roanoke in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, challenges four specific university policies that the nonprofit group Speech First believes are chilling student speech. The policies include ones related to discriminatory harassment, bias-related incidents, computer use, and flyering, which requires students to obtain approval from the school before distributing literature on campus. Through this elaborate disciplinary apparatus, administrators at Virginia Tech have intimidated students into silence, refraining altogether from expressing comments or viewpoints that might be perceived as controversial or offensive. This effort to restrict, and even punish, speech based on content goes against the commitment to academic discourse that is supposed to
Students from the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, Md., hold signs during a pro-life youth rally and Mass at Capital One Arena in Washington Jan. 19 before the annual March for Life. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)
Washington, D.C., is usually buzzing at this time of year with groups of high school students who have flocked to the nation’s capital for the March for Life. But the event will be held virtually this year due to public health and safety concerns, so schools and their students are marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade a bit differently. When the march’s organizers announced on Jan. 15 that they would move the event online, Jesuit high schools across the country sought to find creative ways to help students honor life at all stages.
CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic
Beginning in 1974, the March for Life has been held every year in Washington D.C. near the date of January 22nd, the anniversary of the
Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal throughout the United States. This year the event was moved a week later because of the presidential inauguration on January 20th. The March for Life will start at midday with a rally at the National Mall, followed by a march that ends at the steps of the Supreme Court.
In the midst of the pandemic, the March is still going to continue as planned in Washington D.C. But there are also dozens of local marches happening in January to allow people to participate without taking the risks of interstate travel.