The Roman Catholic Foundation, a campus group at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is suing the university because it refuses to allow student-activity funds to be used for certain kinds of religious activities the foundation sponsors, the Associated Press reported this afternoon. The foundation says the university is reneging on a deal that settled an earlier round of litigation.
This is the latest battle over the issue of so-called viewpoint discrimination. Does a public university have a right to deny funds to an organization that intends to use the money to proselytize? Depends on whom you ask, as The Chronicle explored in an article this summer. —Thomas Bartlett
