First Harvard, then Pomona (meme group)

maya54
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 03:08:18 +0000

“Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that the university can’t impose restrictions on students. If you would like to voluntarily be part of the university, you agree to abide by their terms. You break them, you can be punished.”

Actually that’s EXACTLY what it means. A public university is prevented by the 1st Amendment from restrictin almost all student speech. (the only permissible restrictions are the usual First Amendment exceptions. Hate Speech is Not an exception ) You CANNOT BE PUNISHED!

Repeat after me: A public university speech code CAN NOT AND DOES NOT TRUMP THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

Why am I " yelling" at a nice person like you @romanigypsyeyes ? Because it’s VITAL that every one, especially students understand the law. Understand that by attending a public university you don’t give up your constitutional rights (service academies may be an exception). A university can’t ask you to waive those right in order to attend, like by asking you to agree to a speech code. This is well settled law.

So why do universities have them. For deterrent effect. At the end of the day they know they are unenforceable.