This is an opinion column.

No one complained, the administrators said.

No one sued, court records show.

No one seems to have fussed at all.

But on Monday, the University of Alabama suspended two student-led publications as part of its student media portfolio because …

It’s the because part that I’m struggling with.

On Monday, The Crimson White broke the news that two student-led magazines would cease publication, not because their business models were broken, nor because they were righteously raising hell.

Alice magazine focuses on wellness and women’s interests. Nineteen Fifty-Six explores student life for students of color.

And for that, the university deemed them potentially unlawful proxies — a term bandied about by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a memo sent to univer

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