It’s an indirect blame, perhaps, but the path leads there. The story comes from Valdosta State University, via Inside Higher Ed:

T. Hayden Barnes opposed his university’s plan to build two large parking garages with $30 million from students’ mandatory fees. So last spring, he did what any student activist would do: He posted fliers criticizing the plan, wrote mass e-mails to students, sent letters to administrators and wrote a letter to the editor of the campus newspaper. While that kind of campaign might be enough to annoy university officials, Barnes never thought it would get him expelled.

To become a student there again, Barnes must have a psychiatrist certify that he’s not a threat to himself or others, and to undergo therapy.

The college also has a “free speech area” policy, which is unusually rigid in restricting student expression to a single stage on the 168-acre campus, only between the hours of 12 and 1 p.m. and 5 and 6 p.m., with prior registration.

9/11? Well, it’s just this new attitude about dangerous people. The free speech area garbage springs directly from post 9/11 restrictions of personal rights.