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Congress has made rules about federal funding and what must be done if private institutions accept it. Such as they must follow certain constitutional requirements; freedom of speech, assembly, association.
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Not so. To point out just one of many examples: if this were true, how could it be that BYU receives federal financial aid funding (
http://saas-dev.byu.edu/depts/finaid/oview.aspx?lms=4) and yet requires its students to conform to a very strict code of sexual conduct (
http://honorcode.byu.edu/Honor_Code_...tuous_Life.htm), even though viewing pornography (
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...croft2004.html) and homosexual activity (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas) are constitutionally protected rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, respectively?
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they cannot prevent the students from forming Greek groups on their own without college recognition, or discipline them for doing so, which is what Bowdoin and some other schools tried to do.
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Of course they can. What federal law would prevent it? The GOVERNMENT did not stop Bowdoin from punishing its students. It was an issue of alumni support and public relations. That has nothing to do with Congress, the Constitution, etc.