Utah State University hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalis recently and a journalism faculty member is steaming mad about it.

Not that Scalia appeared but that the school bent to his demands that no video cameras be allowed into the "public event."

Read associate journalism professor Penny Byrne's opinon piece here,

Noting that Scalia's appearance was part of a conference titled "Freedom and the Rule of Law," Byrne took the school to task.

In a part of her piece seemingly addressed to the USU administration she asks:

"Why did you allow this to happen? How could you let anyone close the door of a public forum to anyone -- much less members of the press? A university? A place that should be standing for the greatest possible degree of freedom of expression? The greatest level of access to ideas?

I am ashamed for us. For all of us at Utah State University."

-- dh