Patrick Low: In defense of free speech at UVM

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Patrick Low, a senior political science and Asian studies major at the University of Vermont. He is from Washington, D.C.
Wesley Richter is a student at the University of Vermont. He is charged with disorderly conduct based on a third party overhearing part of a phone conversation in which Mr. Richter “allegedly used explicitly racist and threatening language directed toward African Americans and general diversity initiatives on campus” (ema