All Points: Should universities act as social media police?

A TCU undergraduate was recently placed on disciplinary probation, prohibited from living on campus and from participating in activities like attending games, ordered to drop out of his fraternity, to perform 60 hours of community service and to take a course on issues in diversity. All this after a peer brought to the university’s attention comments he made on social media that she found “disgusting and offensive.” Such measures are not rare, but are they appropriate? Should schools and other institutions monitor and regulate the social media activities of students, or does that violate their free speech rights?

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This story was originally published August 4, 2015 at 5:44 PM with the headline "All Points: Should universities act as social media police?."