Sexist chanting at party leads to punishment for students who ... weren't even there

The comparison to the University of Oklahoma’s treatment of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is apt. SAE’s chant, at least, was obviously and specifically offensive, and indicative of a deep and abiding undercurrent of racism—and, possibly, illegal racial discrimination. The expression of such speech, however, is clearly constitutional.

UMW students may not have a constitutional right to be on a rugby team, but it’s hard to conclude that their speech was anywhere near as offensive as SAE’s. It’s also hard to show that the entire rugby team was complicit in the speech to the same extent as SAE.

Ryan, by the way, is no friend to Reason, but I must applaud her for writing such a balanced and nuanced article. When Jezebel takes the side of the alleged sexists (or at least gives them a fair appraisal), we must recognize that either campus hyper-offendedness has truly gone off the deep end, or the end-times are upon us.