article_snippet.sent: A New York college has provoked anger after postponing A New York college screening of movie American Sniper in response to complaints from Muslim students.
article_snippet.sent: However senior management at the college did not want to create animosity or tension among its students appear to have done just the opposite.
article_snippet.sent: Following complaints from the RPI’s Muslim Students’ Association a number of students have said the postponement was an act of censorship and an attack on free speech, Fox News reported.
article_snippet.sent: The college pulled a screening over student complaints but quickly did an about-face after news of the cancellation sparked a firestorm on campus.
article_snippet.sent: The school released statement saying the decision to cancel had not been consistent with the high value
article_snippet.sent: The school placed on freedom of expression.
article_snippet.sent: The school's vice president for student life, E. Royster Harper, acknowledged that it was ‘a mistake’ to call off a screening over student complaints.
article_snippet.sent: An Alternative screening of The movie was offered to those students who did not want to watch the American Sniper.
highlights_snippet.sent: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute postponed screening following complaint .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: College Muslim Association disagreed with plan to show American Sniper .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Other students say the postponing is censorship and attack on free speech .
  