DePaul University: an unending saga?

DePaul University has become a common target for student rights organizations such as FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). The most recent outrage to provoke angst is DePaul's suppression of an Affirmative Action bake sale (yes, the College Republicans had one here last year, as have many other CRs on universities across the nation). Here's an excerpt from the FIRE press release--it includes info on past FIRE interventions:

Earlier this month, DePaul University shut down an “affirmative action bake sale” protest, and is now investigating a student organizer for “harassment.” DePaul’s latest offense against liberty follows its 2005 dismissal of a professor for arguing with pro-Palestinian students and its censorship of students’ peaceful protest of controversial professor Ward Churchill. With this incident, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is intervening at DePaul for the third time in less than a year.

“DePaul cannot seem to resist punishing its students and professors for expressing their political viewpoints,” stated Greg Lukianoff, FIRE’s interim president. “Fighting repression at DePaul is becoming a full-time job.”

Indeed, reading up on DePaul's habitual repression is almost eye-popping. After so many campuses are finally starting to understand the concept of free speech, DePaul is a throwback to single-minded, single-sided suppression of dissent and guardianship of political correctness.