Muzzling columnists inappropriate

Somehow I missed the moment in history when the editors of the IDS managed to repeal the First Amendment. I'm glad the repeal finally went through, though; I was sick and tired of reading opinions about nasty, upsetting things like race relations. Really, this decision to order campus newspaper opinion columnists not to write opinions about an important campus issue is about as unjournalistic and ridiculous as anything I've seen in a 20-year newspaper career. When I attended IU, the IDS was often called the Indiana Daily Stupid. The current crop of editors has fully lived up to that nickname. \nAnd, by the way, where were the faculty advisers on this? This isn't even a close call. The rationale being given for muzzling columnists doesn't even make superficial sense. It's both idiotic and unjournalistic at the same time. Did not some adult tell these students what fools they were making of themselves?