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FIRE filed a lawsuit against Eastern Virginia Medical School for repeatedly denying med student Edward Si’s application to form a club advocating for single-payer healthcare. There’s a term for that: viewpoint discrimination. Si applied to form a chapter of Students for a National Health Program, a national student organization dedicated to advocating for a single-payer health system, in December 2020. EVMS’s Student Government Association denied the application because it did “not want to create clubs based on opinions, political or otherwise, and the mission and goals of [SNaHP] do not describe what we believe to be necessary or sustainable for a club.” But the student government previously recognized other student clubs that, like SNaHP, expressed opinions and promoted causes, including a Christian fellowship club, a pro-choice club, and a club that promotes consciousness of social inequality in medicine. In bringing this lawsuit, Si and SNaHP seek to hold EVMS’s leadership accountable for violating clearly established constitutional rights — and to make sure students have the right to freely express their opinions and associate around a common cause.
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