UT Lifts Ban on Dorm Room Signs

University of Texas: Students once again free to post “gratuitously offensive” signs from their dorm windows

The University of Texas has overturned a long-standing ban prohibiting students from posting signs in their dorm room windows.

The ban was for “for aesthetic and other reasons” according to the University.

Which is a good thing. I know the one year I spent in a dorm at Baylor University, I had campaign signs posted in my third floor window at Kokernot Hall. And if staunchly old Baylor allowed the signs, surely the much more progressive UT should do the same.

But I’m also thinking that UT President William Powers Jr. might overestimate the kids on campus:

Powers made the suspension permanent this week, following a report by a committee of faculty members, students and administrators who recommended just that. He also approved the panel’s proposed guidelines on window postings that encourage students to avoid “gratuitously offensive expression” but stop short of prohibiting it.

“I have great confidence that all members of our university community will support and respect these policies, which promote free speech and civil and thoughtful dialogue among members of our community,” Powers said in a campus-wide e-mail.

The problem is that Liberals have become the party of unhinged grievance mongers. It’s almost impossible not to offend somebody on the Left.

I’m sure any and every anti-Obama signs will be reported as “gratuitously offensive expression”, since we all know that any and all criticism of B. Hussein Obama is racism.