FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is on fire in North Carolina, with two victories over higher-ed totalitarians in two days. Announced today was a victory at Catawba Valley Community College:

Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) student Marc Bechtol learned this morning that all charges against him have been dropped and he is free to step foot on campus. Bechtol was pulled out of his classroom last week, suspended for two semesters, and banned from campus without a hearing after he complained on Facebook about his school’s aggressive marketing of a debit card company to its students.

And just yesterday came this from the state’s flagship university:

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has cleared a Christian student group of any wrongdoing after it dismissed a student who felt that he could no longer adhere to the group’s religious beliefs. Yesterday, Christian a cappella student group Psalm 100 learned that UNC had determined that the group had complied with UNC’s nondiscrimination policy, which allows belief-based student groups to make decisions about members and leaders based on those beliefs. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) had intervened to ensure that UNC follow its stated policy.

Keep up the great work, guys.