Attack of the federal sex police  When I was growing up, it was
widely believed that colleges and universities were the part of
our society with the widest scope for free expression and free
speech. In the 1950s, the thinking ran, few people dared to say
anything that went beyond a broad consensus. But on campus,
anyone could say anything he liked.  Today, we live in an
America with enormous cultural variety in which few things are
considered verboten. But on campus it’s different. There, saying
something considerably milder than some of the double entendres
you heard in cable-news coverage of the Anthony Weiner scandal
can get you into big trouble.  These reflections are inspired by
a seemingly innocuous 19-page letter on April 4 from the
Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to colleges and
universities. The letter was given prominence by Greg Lukianoff,
president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education,
which has done yeoman work opposing restrictive speech codes.
OCR’s letter carr