OK, now wait a minute. Are you telling us that our library can be circled by middle-aged men in suits handing out their versions of the New Testament forcing me to run around the long way to the entrance to avoid being evangelized, but I can’t hand out political information during what is quite conceivably the most important presidential elections of our lifetime without running it by a bunch of college bureaucrats first?
Pardon me, but weren’t college campuses at one point in our history the hot bed of political protest, at the forefront of radical thought and the birthplace of young American political involvement?
At what point in the American development did it become all right to force religion on people but wrong to freely present political views?
I admit that I might be allowed to present my ideas if the uppity-ups think they are not too controversial, but then that isn’t exactly freedom of speech, now is it?
I’m not talking about burning down the library. I’m talking about handing out literature – not even bright green literature, just ordinary old pamphlets a’la Thomas Paine. There is something mighty a-skew here folks!
If anyone is looking for me, I’ll be having a one-woman sit-in on the library steps.
Tabetha Garman

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