Will porn continue to be shown on MD college campuses? {Thanks, AP}

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it a little funny that students at the University of Maryland, College Park are still fighting for the right to show porn on campus.

Even more entertaining is the fact that it’s now being made a debate on free speech.

I’m not at all in favor of abridging anyone’s rights, but is the right to view porn a fundamental need or more of a want?

WJZ-TV reports officials with the state’s university system are formulating a policy which regulates pornographic films being shown on campus. This comes after a group of students waged a battle to show porn on campus back in the spring.

The Baltimore Sun adds that the state’s university of system has to come up with a policy or risk feeling the wrath of state lawmakers. Back in April some lawmakers wanted to hit the universities in the pocket by tying approval of their budgets to blocking the screening of the controversial films.

Good news for students: A university system administrator says the state probably can’t ban the showing of the movies, but may instead require the showing of pornographic films be paired with academic discussion.

I guess that’s what you call both sides meeting in the middle. If we’re going to see it, let’s talk about it.

And the good news for administrators? Students, that are at times labeled “apathetic,” are finally up in arms about something. I find it entertaining that porn is causing so much hoopla, but at least some intellectually stimulating conversations may come out of these debates.

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