Michael at A Collage of Citations writes of a Chicago High School student arrested because of a "disturbing" piece of writing. Michael raises some interesting questions:

The police chief said disorderly conduct can be when writing disturbs someone, but this seems to be a fairly subjective definition with very little clarity on implementation: Whose writing is it that disturbs someone? Who is being disturbed?

Maybe this is, in part, a knee-jerk reaction to the Virginia Tech shootin