UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2

Suburbanpride writes "Last year, as Slashdot readers may remember, the University of California, San Diego forced student website UCSDuncensored to change its name to SDuncensored, citing California education code that gives it exclusive rights to the name. This year, the target is youCSD, a student blog that has been critical of the administration. The university denies that the site's content had anything to do with the nastygram they received, which informed them that were in violation for not only the name, but for an image they took of the Geisel Library, which the university claims to hold a trademark on. There are dozens of sites that use UCSD in the name, not to mention the 1000+ members of the UCSD xanga blogring. What's next, campus police stopping people from taking pictures of the library?"

Comments

what goes around, comes around

[ChipMonk]

If they try to shut down a protest site, we just turn Slashdot loose on their asses. It may not shut them down, but it'll strain their bandwidth.

Re:what goes around, comes around

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus, all their stuff is written in Pascal!

Red Hot Chili Pepper is in trouble

[usefool]

Californication

Re:Yeah, "rights"

[kendoka]

don't laugh man, I was a prospective student, a student, and now a staff member - i got fucked thrice. =)

Re:Does Slashdot provide a forum for free speech?

[the_mad_poster]

One potential problem with that story is that the doctor "delivered ... everything but his ... head" yet she remembers it had "the most perfect, angelic face"

What is this, some form of dead baby joke? Are you stupid? Did you survive a botched partial birth abortion or something?

Patriot Act??!?!

[CakerX]

First they want to know who is taking what out of the library.

Next, they don't want you taking pictures of the library.

I think I get it, they are going to round up librarians into concentration camps, the horror, oh the horror.

Xanga UCSD blogring

[HoshiToshi9000]

Based on a quick perusal of the Xanga blogring, the UCSD student population is composed of 90% Asian women, of which 99% of them are quite hot. WTHail?

UCSD's solution?

[dv8ed]

It's cheaper to let Slashdot take it down than to pay lawyers to do it.

Re:legal system designed to control populace

[tsm_sf]

What, are you saying we shouldn't trust anyone over 30? I think I've heard that somewhere before...

Re:it's tricky, really...

[calidoscope]

OTOH, it is NOT really a *public* university as you say, because we (the students) pay for nearly all of it.

I think you are wildly overestimating the share of costs supported by tuition. When I was an UC student (overlapping the final two years of the Reagan governorship) tuition was ~$300/year for CA residents - figure total tuition revenue from residents was 30 million per year which was a drop in the bucket compared to UC's budget. Tuition is a lot higher now (as is most prices), but I would be really surprised that it was anywhere near the cost of running the system.

The University is also subsidized in that it doesn't pay property tax, land in La Jolla is worth on the order of 1 million/acre - so UCSD's land would be able to generate several million per year in property tax revenue if it was privately owned.