This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, May 30th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

When college students speak up for their right to speak up on campus,

they often paint a target on their backs,

one that might well follow them beyond

their school days. Speech First is a group that aims to allow students to assert their

rights without having to be, as President Nicole Neely puts it it that person. Their latest suit is against

the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign over several policies that

restrain, deter, suppress, and punish speech on campus.

I think the deck is stacked against students who want to bring a case against their school,

period.

Even if you realize there's a problem, even if you realize your civil liberties are being violated,

which to be fair, most students don't even realize that. But if they do, it is, the deck is stacked against them because

students don't want to be that person.

If you're that person who files a complaint,

you're the named plaintiff in a lawsuit.

Caleb Brown versus University of Kentucky,

you know you will be ostracized by you.

It's a very likely lawsuit by the way for no reason.

You know you will be ostracized by your peers.

You will be singled up by your professors and those will kind of be the obvious ones but what

opportunities will you miss out on?

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