Thought Police strike again on campus

in the early morning on Sunday, the 5th of August 2007 by Chad

A suspended University of Delaware student accused of offending classmates with a Web page of sex jokes has filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking to be reinstated.

Maciej Murakowski, 19, of Newark and his attorney, David L. Finger, believe the sophomore was targeted by nervous school officials in the wake of shootings at Virginia Tech.

The Web page had been up for months without any apparent problem until April 19, three days after 32 people were killed by a mentally disturbed student in Blacksburg, Va. That night, Murakowski’s parents were called and he was barred from campus.
The school required Murakowski to get a letter from a “licensed mental health provider” certifying that he was not a threat to himself or others, which he did.
He was then briefly allowed to return to classes, but barred from his dorm room. He was ultimately suspended for at least a semester because the Web page was deemed “disruptive.”

Jokes about sex is disruptive enough to remove this kid from school and ban him from his dorm? Wow, what pure power this guy has. By simply writing jokes on a web page, he is so damn dangerous that he needs a shrink to testify that he won’t kill dozens of people.

“He was [suspended] because his writing supposedly upset another student, even though at a hearing he produced several female witnesses who said the writing didn’t bother them,” said Finger.

And once again… some people’s lives are so absolutely wonderful that a simple web page is the biggest threat to their existence. I’m thinking this other student who is upset should be the one visiting a shrink. Or maybe forced to watch a season of Carlos Mencia.

Once a doctor certified that Murakowski was not a threat, the incident should have been over, said Mark Goodman of the Student Press Law Center in Virginia. “I think the law is very clear, the First Amendment doesn’t allow the university to punish a student for expressing views they find offensive,” he said.
University officials declined to comment Thursday.
Murakowski’s low-tech text Web site, which has since been moved from a UD server to a private server, is still available online, as is his defense of his writing.

Here is the site that is so utterly horrible that this guy needs to be banned. Actually, its a little in poor taste, but it wouldn’t be funny otherwise.

In the suit filed in U.S. District Court last week, Murakowski seeks reinstatement, a clean record, credit for classes he missed and damages. Finger said the sometimes silly, sometimes dark and sexually charged humor may have been in bad taste and immature, but was clearly intended as satire.
A psychologist found Murakowski was not a threat to himself or others. “Some of his writings are insensitive and … while I certainly do not condone such expressions, I do not believe that they reflect any potential for physically acting out against any member of any of the groups referenced in your letter to Mr. Murakowski,” Dr. Philip R. Braun wrote to school officials, according to the suit.

Awwww insensitive. Oh wait, insensitive is a class 1 felony now, isn’t it?

But after briefly letting Murakowski return to classes, he was suspended in May following a hearing for violating the school’s Disruptive Conduct Policy.
The suspension pointed to his site, describing the content as “degrading, demeaning and violent toward women … even some pieces that may start out wittily or humorously continue to descend into nothing more than a violent end or violent solution,” according to court papers. School officials said he would have to reapply through the office of admissions if he wanted to return to UD. If allowed back, he would be barred from student housing.
The lawsuit alleges the university appeared to violate its own policies regarding free speech and treated Murakowski differently than others involved in similar disputes.

Free speech on campus. Only allowed to be offensive if you’re protesting something on the right. You can’t even try to be funny anymore without worrying about the thought police stepping in and kicking you out of school for a joke. Maybe something like:

What’s the difference between a Porsche and 200 dead babies? I don’t have a Porsche in my garage.

Yeah, pretty sick huh. But if you don’t find it the least bit humorous at least for a second or two, then something is seriously wrong with you.

But hey Maciej, don’t worry. I got kicked out of that shithole school also because their engineering department is a complete joke. Their professors (not the SAs) never heard of the fact that digital electronic circuits can be simplified to algebra equations for the inputs and outputs. And that solving a simple equation is easier than those damn charts they try to make you do. So by exposing their ignorance you’d also get booted out.

Read the rest of the story that should make you cringe.

Anyway, the guys site is pretty darn funny. Why the iPhone sucks. And this gem on pirates:

Goals
The primary goal of any Pirates ship is to procure ‘booty,’ (the professional term for valuables, such as gold, gems, and narcotics) and wenches,’ (the professional term for bitches). It is up to the captain of each individual ship to decide the best way for his ship to obtain booty and wenches. Typically, the captain opts for ‘looting’ and ‘pillaging,’ Pirate terms for organizing various fundraising events (such as bake sales and bachelor auctions) and robbing the shit out of people, respectively.