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September 01, 2024

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Free Speech Under Siege: Indiana University Cracks Down on Candlelight Vigil

As the sun dipped below the horizon on August 25th, a group of brave souls gathered at the iconic Sample Gates of Indiana University, defying the institution's latest attempt to stifle their First Amendment right to assemble and express themselves freely. Led by Ben Robinson, an associate professor of Germanic Studies, and Bryce Greene, a fearless graduate student and founder of IU's Palestine Solidarity Committee, the crowd of roughly forty individuals congregated for a poignant candlelight vigil aimed squarely at denouncing the university's newly minted "expressive activity" policy.

At its core, this Draconian dictate restricts protest, assembly, and all manner of constitutionally protected speech within arbitrary time constraints—namely, between the hours of 6 am and 11 pm—a move critics argue imperils the very essence of intellectual inquiry and debate central to higher education itself.

Predictably, authorities wasted little time enforcing these curbs on liberty; mere days later, Professor Robinson and Mr. Greene found themselves summoned before disciplinary bodies merely for exercising those most basic human freedoms enshrined within our Constitution.

Tuesday afternoon brought news that the long arm of bureaucratic repression reached out anew when Greene received word via electronic mail that his participation in what amounted to nothing more than peaceful dissent merited formal discipline proceedings under the ominous guise of maintaining order upon the sacred grounds of learning.

When confronted regarding this flagrant disregard for fundamental American values embodied within the Bill of Rights, administrators retreated behind platitudes, claiming they couldn't possibly offer further illumination on ongoing investigations due to confidentiality concerns.

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