CAMPUS CHRONICLES, LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS EDITION: A college president takes FIRE to task for classifying bans on “verbal abuse” (like this, perhaps?) and “posters promoting alcohol consumption” as speech codes. The “scourge of excessive alcohol consumption,” he feels, particularly makes the latter an example of “imbalanced sensationalism.” Would he similarly defend 1950s- and 60s-era efforts to censor speech that threatened to spread the “scourge of Communism?” The Red Menace was, after all, quite a bit better armed than are the forces of demon rum.