… for silliness rising to unconstitutional levels.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education defends the rights of students and faculty to practice their first amendment rights on America’s campuses. This right is shockingly in danger at our bastions of tolerance and communication of course, since we should only be tolerant of certain things…

This week Murray State’s sexual harassment definition was named FIRE’s Speech Code of the Month for its overly broad restrictions such as:

* “Calling a person a doll, babe, or honey”
* “Making sexual innuendoes”
* “Telling sexual jokes or stories”
* “Turning discussions to sexual topics”
* “Looking a person up and down (elevator eyes)”
* “Displaying sexual and/or derogatory comments about men/women on coffee mugs, hats, clothing, etc.”

You read that right. This poorly designed and unfunny coffee mug could potentially be a violation:

But does that mean it is necessarily unacceptable? Actually according to Murray’s website, it does:

UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIORS FALLS INTO 3 CATEGORIES:

1. Behavior that is clearly wrong any time it happens: grabbing someone’s genitals, forced kissing, nasty insults, blocking someone’s way, stalking.

2. Behavior that is offensive to some people and not to others: jokes, language, teasing.

3. Behavior that may or may not be offensive, depending on who is doing it or how it is done (the nature of the relationship) touching, compliments, asking someone out for a date.

So if the coffee mug is offensive to me, it’s unacceptable. Also, requesting dates is unacceptable.

Welcome to free speech on America’s campuses.