Second school in two weeks, in both cases it was the radical Muslim Students Association (MSA) complaining.
Via Campus Reform:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York postponed its screening of American Sniper, scheduled to show April 10, after receiving a request from the school’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) to cancel the screening.
According to a post on the Union Programs and Activities Committee Cinema’s (UPAC) Facebook page, “RPI has long upheld the values of respect and coexistence, thus it is only our highest concern that this screening would not create any tensions or hatred among students at RPI.”
UPAC is RPI’s student-run movie theater sponsored by the Student Union.
American Sniper will not air tonight and will instead be postponed to a later date in the semester and held alongside an “educational forum.” In its place, UPAC will be airing The Theory of Everything.
UPAC’s website is currently under maintenance, but correspondence about the controversy can be found on its Facebook page and the updated schedule, excluding American Sniper, can be found in a post by its Reddit account.
An RPI student quickly created a petition to demand that the movie be shown, blasting UPAC for “direct suppression of a viewpoint in a [sic] issue that will shape the world for generations to come.