GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION – AT 11:52 A.M. ET:  Thoroughly obnoxious.  But what will the punishment be?  Probably nothing.  From Daily Caller: 

In honor of National Police Week (which falls May 15-21), Dartmouth’s College Republicans reserved a bulletin board at the Collis Center and used it to create a display honoring police officers and firemen who have fallen in the line of duty. One part of the display noted that 60 police and 343 firemen were killed in the 9/11 attacks, while another declared over 20,000 police officers have been killed while on-duty in the history of the United States.

At the bottom, the display said in big letters, “BLUE LIVES MATTER.”

This last part of the display appears to have outraged Black Lives Matter supporters at Dartmouth, several of whom vocally complained on Twitter and Facebook that the display was offensive and even “white supremacist.”

But Black Lives Matter did more than just complain, they also took action. The original display was torn down Friday morning, at about 11 a.m, and in its place almost three dozen sheets of paper were used to cover the bulletin board, all of them carrying an identical message: “YOU CANNOT CO-OPT THE MOVEMENT AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE TO MEMORIALIZE THE PERPETRATORS.” At the bottom, each sheet also had the hashtag “#blacklivesmatter” printed on it.

COMMENT:  The BLM censors must be severely disciplined.  We cannot teach students the importance of freedom of expression and then permit individuals or groups to decide what expression others will be allowed to see and hear.  Of course, there are plenty of people teaching in universities and colleges who don't actually believe in freedom of expression, unless it's their own.

Let's see what Dartmouth does.  I'm not optimistic.  A previous disruption by BLM was buried.

May 14, 2016