Grad student sues her college after receiving "no contact" orders

A Christian graduate student at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville allegedly issued three no-contact orders against her for expressing her conservative political opinions. [H/T Fox News]

She is suing the school administration and staff in the art therapy program.

“I was alarmed when I had received three no-contact orders that prevented me from having direct or indirect communication with these three students,” Art therapy student Maggie Dejong said Friday on “Fox & Friends First.”

“Essentially, they were restraining orders that applied to on and off-campus,” Dejong explained, and if true, seems to go beyond the purview of the institution.

No-contact orders and no-communication orders are the way the University restricts students by preventing them to even attempt communicating with other students either directly or indirectly. You might say it's a violation of the First Amendment, but then they would have to kill you, or something.

These restrictions are designed to be used in Title IX cases involving sexual harassment or misconduct. In Dejong's case, it's apparently being abused, as is she.

Near the end of last year of her three-year graduate degree program, the University's director for Equal Opportunity, Access and Title IX Coordination, Jamie Ball, imposed three no-contact orders after three snowflakes were upset with Dejong's political convictions. They evidently felt scared to walk outside their safe areas where people with different opinions, backed up with facts and logic, make them feel threatened and in danger of losing their opinions based on their deeply entrenched feelings.

Ball informed Dejong about the orders’ issuances in a series of emails on February 10, according to a copy of the original lawsuit shared on conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom’s website. You need to read the legal complaint--it's clear and beautifully written. It even points out that two of the students who somehow felt harmed by Dejong, are practicing witches.

The no-contact orders were rescinded on February 28 after Dejong sent an attorney letter to the school, but they were once again imposed the following month.

The Title IX coordination director, Jamie Ball, warned Dejong that she was ordered to have “no contact” or no “indirect communications” with the three students and that if she disregarded the no-contact orders, she could face repercussions, the lawsuit stated.

Ashley Strohmier, Dejong’s lawyer and ADF senior counsel Tyson Langhoffer told Fox News that the University issued the orders even though she “never violated any university policy.” This is also included in the complaint.

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“Yet the university issued no-contact orders against her, prohibiting her from fully participating in classes, including discussions about race relations and the police, simply because they deemed her or her beliefs as unwelcome,” Langhoffer said.

“Universities can’t issue no-contact orders and tell students they can’t speak with other students simply for expressing their views,” Langhoffer added,

I hope Dejong wins and wins bigly.

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