S.C. lawmakers punish university again - Herald Online

South Carolina lawmakers are back to meddling in the curricula of state universities again, and once more gay themes have sparked the intrusion. The question that residents who value free expression need to ask is, where does this stop? State lawmakers recently used the cudgel of budget cuts to punish two public universities for assigning books on homosexuality as part of common reading lists for incoming freshmen. In March, the House approved a spending plan for 2014-2015 that would cut $52,000 from the College of Charleston and $17,142 from the University of South Carolina Upstate because they refused to offer alternative texts for students to read. http://www.heraldonline.com/2014/04/10/5859530/sc-lawmakers-punish-university.html