Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
Max Karson did this for attention.
Google Max Karson and you'll see he's very interested in his 15 minutes (or days) of fame.

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
But the willingness to arrest this guy is sickening.

To the Max
To the Max
A publicity-hungry student shows how easy it is to become a media darling -- with a little help from CU.

"The goal for me is just to get people to read my writing, and the newspapers definitely helped with that," says Max Karson, a University of Colorado at Boulder student who's recently received plenty of coverage thanks to The Yeti, a controversy-courting newsletter he publishes. "As far as any personal pleasure in making the administration look stupid, that wasn't high on my list of priorities. But it was amusing."
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But with the ACLU's help, he escaped all but one day's worth of further punishment, and in October 2002, the Amherst Regional School Committee made its student free-expression policy less restrictive in direct response to the Crux affair.

Upon graduation, Karson moved to Colorado, where his father lives, and enrolled at Colorado State University.

Mass School Revises Free Speech Policy
An Amherst, Massachusetts, native, Karson started writing horror stories as a youngster, and his tradition of provocative prose continued at Amherst Regional High School, where he created and personally distributed a newsletter he called The Crux.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Western Massachusetts came to the defense of Karson's free-speech rights following each suspension and assisted the school committee in revising the policy.