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Charlottesville Fallout for 2 Students

As college students were identified as participants in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this month, there seemed to be little that their institutions could do about it. Although they received calls from other students and communities to discipline or expel students involved, Washington State University and the University of Nevada, Reno, were bound to protect their students' First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly.  Not so at private colleges, however, where at least one student has been kicked out, and another has voluntarily left after he says he received death threats.
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