re: Professor bans graduates from thanking God...University tells professor to f off

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Professors who usurp the rights, moments, etc. of students are a huge pet peeve of mine.

schools have a right to restrict the rights of students in the classroom.

This seems a little foolish on the professors part but this is not a first amendment issue. Just pettiness.

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Not really applicable to what I'm talking about.

It's not really a first amendment issue, it's a "what should be proper in academia" issue. Students should have the right, in an academic (not constitutional) sense, to play a major, perhaps predominant role in planning their own commencement. Especially in law school and the like.

The school is for the students, they should be the focus of attention, and the faculty should keep their mouths shut for the most part and let the students have their say.

It is absolutely obnoxious that protests, largely facilitated by liberal faculty, would keep students from hearing noteworthy graduation speakers and the like. Yet it happens all the time, because of the inflated self-worth of the petulant faculty.