FAU 'Worst Place in America to Attend College'? Ouch!

Told you Florida Atlantic University still mourns Frank Brogan, its last classy president.

Today The Daily Caller comes out with a story by its education editor telling why the Boca Raton school has "undisputed dominance as quite obviously the worst place in the United States to attend college."

Apparently it's got a scary new Free Speech and Campus Civility policy, that insists -- yes, "insists" is the word they use -- "that everyone in the FAU community behave and speak to and about one another in ways that are not racist, religiously intolerant or otherwise degrading to others.

Never mind the state and U.S. constitutions it tramples over like dirty feet on a grape harvest, FAU's "broad and ambiguous" policy makes it mighty hard to be a red-blooded, noncomatose, 21st century college student.

The religiously intolerant part could be used to chill speech criticizing Islam or Christianity, the story notes. It could be used against students speaking their minds on various conflicts involving religion, such as the perpetual struggle between Israelis and Palestinians.

What about the insistence that no one be racist"? Couldn't that become a weapon against students opining in unpopular ways against -- or for -- affirmative action, say, or immigration?

This tax-supported public university has come up with a policy written by some control-freaky, jugheaded bureaucrat to keep students in line. Presumably the "otherwise degrading to others" line is so the university can punish students for dissing a professor, administrator or whoever wrote the "Free Speech and Campus Civility" policy.

FAU really has morphed into a wackadoodle place. Good luck to the new University System chancellor on this one.