Controversy is once again boiling over at Siena College in Albany, New York, and students’ rights to free speech and to an education without hard-left political bias is in peril.

This time, a student is facing disciplinary action — even possible expulsion — for posting flyers around campus.

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Zachary Butler, a political science major and a junior at the college, is facing disciplinary action for distributing 600 flyers on Siena’s campus, according to a piece in Campus Reform. The flyers depict an email sent back in March from philosophy professor Jennifer McErlean, expressing her intent to quit the civil discourse committee because the thought of working with conservative students was making her “miserable.”

In that same letter, she also described conservative-leaning organizations as “evil.”

Though Butler was not involved in the email chain, he told Campus Reform the school’s climate of hostility against conservatives and their nonresponse to this incident was worrying.

Although some positives emerged from the professor’s outrageous email –– including supportive messages from students sent to Michael Bove, president of the Roman Catholic liberal arts school’s College Republicans club –– student Zachary Butler has since received notice from the school that disciplinary action may be taken against him as a result.

Related: Professor Says It’s ‘Miserable’ to Work with ‘Evil’ Conservative

In the “notice of charges” regarding his April 2 flyer distribution, the school said Butler’s actions “‘adversely [affected] the health, welfare, and/or safety’ of campus community members ‘or the name and/or reputation of the college,'” as Campus Reform reported.

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Zachary Butler has also initiated a petition on Change.org calling for disciplinary action against McErlean.

The petition has garnered 430 signatures as of April 10.

LifeZette will be following up with a story featuring the student’s response.

Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.

(photo credit, homepage and article images: Siena College [1], [2], CC BY-SA 3.0, by Matt H. Wade)