TSU bans racy, college-themed Web site

By Chris Echegaray

"...last week, Tennessee State became the first public university in the nation to ban the salacious Web site from its servers, according to the site's founders. Nationwide, a number of private and religious schools, including Lipscomb University, have done the same."

"It's another example of colleges and universities balancing the right to free speech with the potential violence that could follow Internet-based insults and threats..."

"He said JuicyCampus.com's content wasn't consistent with the university's mission, and a parent called to complain about a student's name mentioned on the site. A letter from Freeman explaining the decision ran in Monday's edition of The Meter, the TSU student newspaper..."

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