Student suspended for e-mail in which he states his opinion

[UGAalum94]

I think there's more there than meets the eye.

If the facts of the case are only that he sent an email about students carrying weapons and in response, he was suspended until he had a mental health evaluation, I'd be pretty quick to condemn the college (although as Kevin notes, it doesn't seem to be a constitutional issue, if it's a private college, as much as a issue of the college administrators being hypocritical idiots for having a policy in one place advocating free expression, but in reality, suspending and requiring evaluation of those whose expression is not what they wanted to hear.)

But if you're the guy who responds to the email about counseling being available in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings with an email that mixes carrying concealed weapons in with critiques of affirmative action in admissions (and other random complaints in the second email apparently), I think there is a chance that you are a wack job, and the college is merely protecting other students by requiring your evaluation.

The failure to recognize the inappropriateness of the context for your grocery list of complaints against the college points to something being off, it would seem to me.

Although even so, I think the college handled things super poorly. They should have met with the guy in person first, at least, to see what the deal was.