American universities have hit a new level of absurdity. Hot Air posted an article yesterday about some recent rulings by the administration of DePaul University.

The article reports:

At DePaul University in Chicago, students will soon be able to perambulate around the quad without fear of such lasting mental scar tissue because the university has banned chalking the sidewalks after someone was tasteless enough to write the name of Donald J. Trump on the pavement.

This is ridiculous. College is supposed to be a place where young people learn to evaluate different ideas and reach conclusions that will help them become the leaders of their generation.

The article quotes another article:

DePaul University will no longer allow students to chalk political messages on the sidewalks of its campus because of the “offensive, hurtful, and divisive” nature of pro-Trump chalking found on campus last week.

“While these chalk messages are part of national agendas in a heated political battle, they appeared on campus at a time of significant racial tension in our country and on college campuses. DePaul is no exception,” Depaul’s vice president for student affairs Eugene Zdziarski wrote in a campus-wide email obtained by Campus Reform…

Campus Reform reached out to DePaul to ask why university officials chose to respond to this particular chalking instance despite claims that chalking “regularly” occurs on campus. No response was received in time for publication.

So much for freedom of speech on college campuses. How do we expect to teach college students about the Constitution when we are not even upholding the First Amendment on college campuses?