[IsraelTimes] Universities struggle to revise school policies as the First Amendment is invoked to censor students through unprecedented use of no-contact orders
It’s not a new thing as of October 7th, but let us be hope that the reaction to this will be the flood that finally raises all boats. After Princeton University student Alexandra Orbuch reported on an anti-Israel rally last semester, Orbuch, the editor of the conservative campus newspaper The Princeton Tory, received one thing she didn’t expect — a no-contact order. Typically granted in the case of alleged sexual harassment or alleged assault, a no-contact order (NCO) acts as a type of restraining order. But in this case, the school issued one after pro-Paleostinian students reportedly complained about the questions Orbuch asked during her reporting.
"Princeton has now demonstrated on multiple occasions that if journalists with heterodox views attempt to cover anti-Israel rallies, the administration will grant no-contact orders against them," said Orbuch in an email to The Times of Israel. "The effect is that news hounds are not only prevented from reporting but are effectively banned from certain spaces on campus, under the threat of punishments up to expulsion."
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