See, this is what a campus speech code is supposed to look like

Earlier I commented on James Madison U's confusing-at-best, illiberal-at-worst bout of speechophobia. Now it's time to give a nod to a University which actually respects the speech of its students.

From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( or FIRE ): Victory for Free Speech as College of William & Mary Dumps Speech Codes, Earns ‘Green Light’ Rating:

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., October 12, 2009—The College of William & Mary has fully reformed its campus speech policies to ensure that students and faculty may freely exercise their right to freedom of expression at our nation's second-oldest university. Honoring these commendable reforms, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce the school's "green light" rating, given only to those institutions whose policies fully protect free speech. This rating in Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource—FIRE's comprehensive database of speech restrictions at our nation's colleges and universities—makes William & Mary one of just eleven schools to receive a "green light" out of about 400 surveyed.
"By making the changes necessary to guarantee the First Amendment rights of faculty and students at William & Mary, President Taylor Reveley has stood up for free expression in a way that far too few of his counterparts have done," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "William & Mary students, faculty, and alumni should be proud of their school today for recognizing that speech codes have no place on college campuses. We hope that more schools will follow William & Mary's example."

Read the rest here. My my, what a depressing statistic. Eleven out of four hundred?