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JuicyCampus the much controversial website that lets students say things about each other including complete names of those whom students like to bring bad name has got some attention from Universities. Michael Freeman, VP of Student Affairs at the Tennessee State University has taken an action and halted access to the site. With the target audience being stopped from accessing the service, President and CEO of JuicyCampus, Matt Ivester put up a few words in this regard:

This approach stands in stark contrast with TSU’s decision, which was to censor the speech of its own students. In a truly Orwellian manner, the University chose to limit students’ abilities to read and write to an un-moderated message board online, because their speech was reflecting “negatively” on TSU. Freeman’s position would seem to be that his students cannot be trusted with their First Amendment rights, perhaps believing that they are too immature or irresponsible. Perhaps though, they are just under-educated on this issue. But, unlike his colleagues at top universities, Mr. Freeman has abdicated his responsibility for educating those students, and in doing so has disgraced both his University and his State.

This one’s is set to turn into a pretty good fight and I on a personal note think that the idea of banning such a site is pretty pointless. Especially when other universities haven’t taken such a step.