Teaching what the 1st amendment means, looking into corruption & getting 'reorganized' out of a job

From "First Draft:
An incalculable loss
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This is the guy who spawned First Amendment Free Food Festivals on his campus and helped bring them to other campuses across the country. The idea was simple: he got a grant, bought a bunch of food and then had a part of the campus roped off by staffers of his paper. Students were allowed to enter and eat all they wanted. The catch was that they had to give up their First Amendment rights. After they ate all they wanted, the “goon squad” got to impose its will on them. The goons would break up groups of people who were talking, as the students had given up their right to peaceable assembly. They were given “pro” politician signs that were against their own belief systems because they’d given up the right to free speech. And so it went through the freedoms delineated in the amendment. It was awesome because the kids never realized all the stuff they had until this guy took it away from them.
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Beyond that, he was a hell of guiding force in helping the students under his watch. He pushed his kids to dig into a corrupt student government. The kids found out that the student government had given itself retroactive pay increases because it felt like it. When the paper reported on it, the government kids tried to have this guy fired and the paper gutted. He fought it out and managed to hold the fort. He also managed to squirm out of danger when his kids found out that a number of gift cards bought by the student government had gone missing and the student government kids had no idea what happened. Or so they said.

The kids loved and adored him and every time one of these things came up, they worried that he’d take the brunt of the backlash for their journalism. He always had the same answer: Tell the story, tell the story, tell the story. As much as he loved his job, he knew that the job wouldn’t be worth much if he was allowed to keep it only by not doing it.
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He pushed when he heard bullshit, he went to his go-to people and if you didn’t like the outcome, that was your problem, not his.

What’s funny about this is that he was in no way an asshole. He was a tough adviser. Unfortunately, while the kids under his watch could make this distinction, the powers that be couldn’t (or wouldn’t).
http://www.first-draft.com/

Now those are all 3 powerful lessons. The last one is the saddest.
And so it goes...........

the Prof who got sacked.. But for other campuses that might appreciate such a graphic and personal way to make our Bill of Rights palpable to kids who have never really given them a single thought!