Everyone has heard of the “freedom of speech” clause in the big ol’ United States contract. You know, the one signed well over two hundred years ago. Pardon me for saying so, but that whole “Bill of Rights” was not marked as optional. So why then has a “limit” been imposed on every club in this school that mandates a maximum of fifteen posters or flyers per group? And this is not on private property, which would be understandable, but rather, on public property, funded by your and your parents’ tax dollars.

       Yet what is most alarming about this “limitation” is the time of which it has come about. “Battle of the Beards” and “R.E.B.E.L.” were not imposed upon, nor should they have been. Yet now that Central’s Gay-Straight Alliance has launched a campaign to raise awareness  via visuals, we suddenly find a “limit” on posters allowed. I severely question the fairness of this school’s anti-discrimination policy. This is an attempt at silencing a minority and its allies, who strive for equal treatment. Our administrators seem to think that making a mandate for every club is not discrimination. Yet why was there no mandate prior to the creation of the Gay-Straight Alliance here at Central?