Recent events on University of California campuses reveal a growing need for education about students’ constitutionally-guaranteed rights. Disgregard for Constitutional Rights On UC Campuses In one instance, University of California, Santa Barbara students allowed feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young (whose 2013 salary was $77,100) to steal and destroy an anti-abortion poster that constituted speech protected by the First Amendment and displayed in the Campus’ designated “free speech zone,” and to assault the young woman holding the poster. Furthermore, Miller-Young, whose academic specialties are pornography and sex work -- topics inevitably involving free speech -- told police the “hate speech” nature of the poster “triggered” her to destroy it, and that she was unaware of “an acceptable and legal response” to the poster.  Worse, subsequent to the incident, UCSB Vice Chancellor for...(Read Full Article)