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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
As for the speech stuff, I asked that it be disregarded as remote in time, unless someone can point up a post-1993 speech code at a major university --- preferably a State U., so we can get past the whole "state action" thing definitively.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...AD0894DB404482 . [suit filed in April v. Shippensburg U.'s speech code.]
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-27-03.html [August article on the Cato Institute site - buyer beware - discussing continued existance of speech codes, including at U of MD.]
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...4350-1825r.htm [Wash Times article on what appears to be the same statement from the feds - refers to the SHippensburg thing and Harvard's codes, adopted in '95]
http://www.speechcodes.org/ [anti-speech-code site with useful map, listing colleges by state or region and detailing the speech codes and/or harrassment codes each has in place. U of IL at Urbana seems to have a particularly eggregious example.]
I'm not sure why the whole "state action" thing came in, really - why is state action required to demonstrate something is a value dear to the political [right][left]?
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