There’s more on Penn State’s stance against an art exhibit which the university considers inappropriate. PSU disallowed the exhibit because it was “sponsored” by the campus Hillel.
So we have two possibilities here: (1) Penn State’s art faculty has a rule against displaying any student work that has any sponsorship, including sponsorship of a student organization such as Hillel [near as I can tell, Penn State Hillel is an official PSU club, though I'm not 100% sure]. However, this rule is only applied when the faculty doesn’t like the message the art is sending or (2) there is no such rule, or at least it wouldn’t apply to a noncommercial, student organization such as Hillel, but pretending there is such a rule is a convenient excuse for what would otherwise look like pure heavy-handed enforcement of political correctness.
It gets better. The professor leading the charge against the exhibit has written about censorship of art.
YET ONE MORE UPDATE: This is precious. Professor Charles Garoian, who is apparently responsible for refusing to allow Stulman’s exhibit to be displayed, published (with a co-author) a series of three articles in 1996 in a journal called School Arts entitled “Censorship in the art classroom,” with the final article in the trilogy called “Fighting censorship in the art classroom.” The good professor wrote, prophetically:
Read the details here.
