In September 2012, Joseph Aziz, a graduate student at Montclair State University in New Jersey, posted a YouTube video in which he said that a fellow student’s legs look like “a pair of bleached hams.” The university disciplined Aziz for violating the university’s code of conduct, ordered him to avoid all contact with the other student, and forbade him from posting anything else about the other student on social media. After being disciplined, Aziz complained about the gag order in a private group on Facebook and made a joke about escaping the other student’s “tyrannical ham lock.” A member of the Facebook group copied Aziz’s comments to university administrators, who then gave Aziz a one-semester suspension that appears on his official college transcript. Was the response of Montclair State University appropriate?