Two months ago, John Sieglinger of Raleigh removed his raiment and ran across the field at halftime of the East Carolina University-Southern Miss football game. Three days after that, The East Carolinian student paper published uncensored photos of Sieglinger's Streak on its front page and its website, sparking moral apoplexy among dongphobic school administrators.
The same administrators this week created for themselves a First Amendment issueand possibly a wrongful termination suitby firing the school's student media director. Paul Isom, who was on staff at ECU since 2008, oversaw all student media on campus and directly advised The East Carolinian. Isom didn't make the decision to put penis on the front page, but that matters little. History informs us that someone always pays for a dong flap....
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