The Houston Chronicle reports that a Richard C. McDuffee filed suit in a Montgomery County district court earlier this week claiming a violation of free speech. McDuffee was asking the college district not be allowed to deny access to the blog that criticizes Chancellor Richard Carpenter.

But Steve Lestarjette, associate vice chancellor for external affairs, issued a statement on Thursday saying, "The college has unblocked the site from the college's server. It was never the intent to deny anyone's First Amendment rights."

The blog, richardcarpenterwatch.blogspot.com reports on Carpenter's conduct while chancellor of the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. The blog contains allegations of racism, corruption, purposeful intimidation and incompetence, according to McDuffee's lawsuit.

After a couple of blurry and anonymous conversations with employees of CSN listing website failures, phone line breakdowns, failure to order books for classes by administrators, and a multitude of other infrastructure and administrative problems, including possible corruption and theft by top officials, I have to give CSN a D-- -- ! You can change the name, but it seems to still be a bottom of the barrel school. Obviously, readers just might get the impression that Richard Carpenter left hoping to avoid the rising number of apparent problems with the school. At the very least, the community should be concerned that administrators, who dislike criticisms, can block free speech on a college campus. We should be teaching students to be critical thinkers and to examine all sides of an issue for complete understanding, but apparently only certain views are correct on college campuses.

In fact, looking at websites and books on college choice, not one Nevada college appears to make anyone's top 200 list for any discipline one might study. So, Chancellor Jim Rogers of the Nevada System of Higher Education might be right in condemning Nevada education, but Nevada seems to get further behind every year, even with Jim in charge.