Tuition at Smith College(women's college)=$64,000

[canada-man]

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/19/campus-protesters-to-media-sign-this-loyalty-oath-or-else/


Campus protesters at Smith College banned reporters from covering a 12-hour sit-in on Wednesday unless they explicitly agreed to cover the protests favorably.

According to MassLive.com, the event, which drew between 300 and 500 participants, was organized to show support for Mizzou students who have been protesting what they say is racism on campus.

One of the sit-in organizers at Smith College told journalists that they were being banned because of “the way that media has historically painted radical black movements as violent and aggressive.”

“We are asking that any journalists or press that cover our story participate and articulate their solidarity with black students and students of color,” said Alyssa Mata-Flores, a senior at Smith College. “By taking a neutral stance, journalists and media are being complacent in our fight.”



sounds like the Media in Castro's Cuba, Nazi Germany, USSR, North Korea, etc where they must tow the party line.

 

[canada-man]

"Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of his aides what news to print and suppress, how to write the news and headline it, what campaigns to call off or institute and what editorials were desired for the day... Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors 'to keep out of the newspapers anything which in any manner is misleading to the public, mixes selfish aims with community aims, tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the defense of Germany, its culture and economy'" - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich



"Seven subchambers were established to guide and control every sphere of cultural life: the Reich chambers of fine arts, music, the theater, literature, the press, radio and the films. All persons engaged in these fields were obligated to join their respective chambers, whose decisions and directives had the validity of law. Among other powers, the chambers could expel – or refuse to accept – members for 'political unreliability,' which meant that those who were even lukewarm about National Socialism could be, and usually were, excluded from practicing their profession or art and thus deprived of a livelihood." - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

 

[Aardvark154]

From The Volokh Conspiracy legal blog.


" 'In an effort to create a safe space free from potential insensitivity from the news media, activists at Smith College barred reporters from covering a sit-in Wednesday that drew 300 to 500 students.

The demonstration, organized in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri, was held from from noon to 12 a.m. Thursday in the Smith College Student Center….

“We are asking that any journalists or press that cover our story participate and articulate their solidarity with black students and students of color,” [Alyssa Mata-Flores, a 21-year-old Smith College senior and one of the sit-in’s organizers] told MassLive in the Student Center Wednesday. “By taking a neutral stance, journalists and media are being complacent in our fight.”

Smith organizers said journalists were welcome to cover the event if they agreed to explicitly state they supported the movement in their articles.

Stacey Schmeidel, Smith College director of media relations, said the college supports the activists’ ban on media….

Schmeidel said that as far as she’s aware, the sit-in was the first Smith event to bar media coverage.'



The students of course have no power to bar anyone, since it’s not their property. Smith College is the entity that’s imposing the prohibition. Erik Wemple (Washington Post) quotes Schmeidel as saying that “the college merely respects the autonomy of the students to set the rules for their own event,” but I’m skeptical of that rationale, at least unless Smith is normally in the habit of ceding the rules for Student Center access to whatever student group wants to occupy the Center for 12 hours."

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My comment is that if you wish to go to one of what used to be the seven sisters - Mount Holyoke is a better choice than Smith.