Thursday, December 12, 2002 :::
Justice Volokh brings up the confusion between "epitaph" and "epithet". I sent him the following paragraph from Kors and Silverglate's "The Shadow University", page 169 (at least it's 169 in my hardcover version -- 55% of the way through chapter 7). Typos are mine, editorial comments are theirs.
When federal courts began striking down codes restricting "verbal behavior" at public universities and colleges, other institutions, even in those jurisdictions, did not seek to abolish their policies. Thus, Central Michigan University, after the University of Michigan code had been declared unconstitutional, maintained a far broader and vaguer policy outlawing "offense" on grounds of race or ethnicity, not to mention "epitaphs [sic, we hope] or slogans that infer [sic] negative connotations about an individual's racial or ethnic affiliation."
That "sic, we hope" cracked me up.
::: posted by Steven at 1:55 AM
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