A student notorious at the University of Arizona for his aggressive preaching style was apparently not getting the attention he wanted.

So, he escalated his antics to a whole new level this week.  And, to their credit, the school’s administrators seem to be cognizant of First Amendment issues.

Eric Owens of The Daily Caller has he story:

On Tuesday, junior Dean Saxton — widely known as “Brother Dean” — stood in the middle of the sunny campus with a sign blaring, “You deserve rape” in all capital letters. For variety, the classics and religious studies major held two other signs as well, proclaiming, “Frat boyz are the rapists” and “Sorority girls are whores.”

The other side of the “You deserve rape” sign reportedly opined that “Rapists deserve the death penalty.”

“He really didn’t hold that sign out very much,” though, according to YouTube user JSXS, who has uploaded a long but painfully entertaining video of the kerfuffle.

At one point, according to campus police, a particularly infuriated student tried to take Saxton’s sign away. The details are hazy, though, because police aren’t talking.

The veritable student on the quad interviewed by the Daily Wildcat didn’t appreciate Saxton’s behavior.

“It is free speech, but I still disagree that he should be able to call other people names and we can’t call him names,” said Paola Gonzalez, a pre-pharmacy sophomore. “He shouldn’t be able to call us names, either.”

It’s not clear what was preventing Gonzalez and other students from insulting Brother Dean. A large number of passersby did, in fact, verbally berate Saxton — who seemed to revel in the negative attention.