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University forces students to support causes they disagree with—but refuses to apply the same principle to itself.

MADISON, WI— This past Friday was a day to remember for Captain Scott Southworth, a unit commander in the Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Military Police Company. Southworth’s unit returned on Friday from more than a year of rigorous duty in Iraq and the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit handed down the latest opinion in Southworth v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Captain Southworth, then a student at the University of Wisconsin, was the plaintiff in the lawsuit when it was filed in 1996. The lawsuit challenged the unfair nature of mandatory student ...