We read:
"Long Island University has fired five students from their positions as resident assistants at the C.W. post campus after they posted a fake hostage video on the Internet with the pretend hostage takers speaking in Middle Eastern accents.
"This is not an issue of free speech, but rather an issue of respect for others and insensitively to acts of violence," university Provost Joseph Shenker said in a statement obtained by FOXNews.com
In the video, five figures in ski masks speak in crude Middle Eastern accents as they threaten a 'captive' - a rubber duck named 'Pete' that serves as the mascot of a residence hall at the campus....
The video was accompanied by a statement saying it was a joke, but university administrators saw it as insensitive, Newsday reported.
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Isn't it great that somebody can just DECLARE that "This is not an issue of free speech". I wonder where the constitution confers that right on university officials?
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