A junior at the University of Maryland at College Park is running for president of the student body with a significant disadvantage. His candidacy was publicized inadvertently when a student newspaper printed his name in a recent article, and that accident ran afoul of the rules governing campus elections, according to today’s Washington Post. The student, Jahantab Siddiqui, was fined $600 for the violation, and many students regarded the accident as an intentional move to skirt the rules and take unfair advantage of the fact that his name was suddenly better known than his opponents’. Mr. Siddiqui says the arcane election rules violated his free-speech rights. But since the rules were set by the student government itself, not the public university, he does not seem to have a clear-cut First Amendment claim. —Andrew Mytelka