Sex Column, Display Stir Campuses

Item No. 1: Sex column causes stir at University of Montana /Missoulian A University of Montana law professor has taken her concerns about a weekly sex column in the student-run newspaper, the Montana Kaimin, to top school administrators. Professor Kristen Juras wrote a letter last week to UM President George Dennison and School of Journalism Dean Peggy Kuhr, requesting that they meet with the Kaimin editorial staff to “ask them to reconsider their publication of this column.”

Item No. 2: Student sues college after being barred from showing pro-life display /KHQ: The official complaint Sheeran filed in court states that when Sheeran and the Spokane Falls Christian Fellowship wanted to hold a pro-life event at the College on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the College refused to allow the event. Court documents say the College told Sheeran and SFCF “that their pro-life display was ‘offensive’ and ‘discriminatory.’”

Question: Should both of these situations be protected by the First Amendment? One of them? Neither of them?