Codes of silence. (freedom of speech in university campuses)(includes related article on campus speech code provisions of harassment policies)

From: Reason | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: Kors, Alan C.; Silverglate, Harvey A. | Copyright information

Universities rather than politicians nor government agencies have conducted the most potent and far-reaching attack on a key precept of the First Amendment that pertains to content neutrality. A scrutiny of the contradictory nature of these schools' speech codes will reflect this fact.

Who's gagging free speech on campus - and why

In Carnegie-Mellon University's "Policy on Free Speech and Assembly," originally adopted in 1988 and republished periodically in the faculty and...

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