Editor-at-large of CP-sponsored publication is arrested… for chalking

The editor at large of one of our sponsored publications was arrested in late September for chalking on campus sidewalks at the University of Arizona.

The editor, Evan Lisull, was charged with a class one misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $2,500 fine. He was ultimately able to avoid jail time.

Lisull wrote “chalk is speech” and “freedom of expression” on campus sidewalks. He was expressing opposition to the arrest of his friend, Jacob Miller, a graduate student at UA who chalked during a protest of UA’s budget cuts.

Lisull is editor at large of the CP-sponsored Kosmopolitan Online at Kalamazoo College. He’s written a regular column for UA’s school newspaper, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and he edits his own blog on campus issues at DesertLamp.com.

See more at the National Student News Service and the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)