Administrators at UC San Diego want the Che Cafe Collective, a leftist student group, to remove an incendiary link from their website. Citing the U.S. Patriot Act and the university's own policy on acceptable use of electronic resources, UCSD admins have given the Collective four days to take down their link to a Columbian rebel group listed on the U.S. government's roster of terrorist organizations. The group has not complied, and they are getting support from civil liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). According to Thor Halvorssen, FIRE's executive director, "The administration of UCSD are officers of a state institution, and they are bound to uphold both the constitution of the State of California and the U.S. Constitution. And where they think state or federal laws conflict with the Constitution, they are obligated to follow the Constitution....If the U.S. government believes that this ChÈ CafÈ issue was a problem, then the U.S. government would bring a case against them. The administration's involvement in this is nothing but an unmistakable, blatant, and egregious attempt at suppression and censorship. Federal laws are enforced by federal district attorneys, not by bureaucrat deans." Shades of the GUPS controversy at SF State last spring. .....