Comment Re:Refund (Score 1) 644
Private institutions of higher education are not by nature of being private exempt from the constitution. There are a number of avenues that the law has to require things of them including the fact that most of them enjoy non-profit status and many of them recieve funds from the government (even private institutions).
More importantly, you are right, we don't have to like it, and the law isn't the only thing that should determine if something is right or wrong. This institutin has a moral obligation to respect freedom of speech not to mention their obligation to it's campus community, society as a whole, the notions of academic freedom, etc.
In fact, academic freedom is perhaps the most powerful force that holds a private institution to the ideology of free speech. When you enroll in education you are enrolling to pursue knowledge, the institution has no right to recind that agreement because they happen to disagree with the knowledge you have found.
Regardless, my point is, this is not "just like any contract between individuals". It is an agreement between a private institution of higher education and a student enrolling there. Despite what some might have you think, students are not merely customers to the corporations of education.
More importantly, you are right, we don't have to like it, and the law isn't the only thing that should determine if something is right or wrong. This institutin has a moral obligation to respect freedom of speech not to mention their obligation to it's campus community, society as a whole, the notions of academic freedom, etc.
In fact, academic freedom is perhaps the most powerful force that holds a private institution to the ideology of free speech. When you enroll in education you are enrolling to pursue knowledge, the institution has no right to recind that agreement because they happen to disagree with the knowledge you have found.
Regardless, my point is, this is not "just like any contract between individuals". It is an agreement between a private institution of higher education and a student enrolling there. Despite what some might have you think, students are not merely customers to the corporations of education.
