What gives? The New Year is not quite a month old, and already two college campuses have established beachheads against incursions by the forces of political correctness.

On Thursday, LU reported on one college president who said no dice to a list of student demands presented to him with in December.

Now comes word of another campus that has rejected the imposition of a ban on demeaning jokes, noting that such rules hinder students’ rights to free speech under the First Amendment.

According to The College Fix, Southwest Minnesota State University has done a 180 with respect to the implementation of rules that limit acts of so-called “cultural intolerance,” including the telling of jokes that some on campus might find objectionable.

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In November, the new additions to the school’s curiously named Prohibited Code of Conduct came under fire when FIRE — the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — challenged the regulations as unconstitutional. FIRE wrote: