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Let’s Disband William and Mary’s new Schoolyard Tattletale System before the Lawsuits Commence and William and Mary again becomes the subject of national jokes

President Nichol’s New Initiative Invites Students to Anonymously Report Fellow Students for Offensive Remarks

A few short weeks ago, W&M quietly launched a “bias reporting system” and invited students to report anonymously their fellow students for remarks that offend them. Click [HERE] for the W&M web site pages devoted to this system.

UPDATE: William W. Van Alstyne, Lee Professor of Law at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, Slams Bias Reporting System

Van Alstyne: "These politically-"skewed" codes of conduct are seriously misguided (and, I think, frankly embarrassing to universities which endlessly contrive to take the "correct" stance on all sorts of matters.....)"

Read more [HERE].

Nichol to Supervise Secret Investigations of Students and Control of Anonymously Lodged Hearsay and Libelous Charges

In this new tattletale system, President Nichol is kept up to date on all secret investigations of offending remarks and controls the dissemination of any private data collected against any student or faculty member. Click [HERE] for details.

What You Can Do to Help Stop this Assault on Free Speech

• Send the ad found [HERE] to a friend.
• Print the ad and distribute to your friends at W&M’s Homecoming.
• Confess your offending thoughts preemptively here to President Nichol and beg for his forgiveness for your sins.
• Email the ad to your local newspaper’s editor and ask him or her if he or she thinks that this is a system that they would tolerate in their own community