Posted on 04/12/2011 8:14:33 AM PDT by SmithL
UC Davis students angry about rising tuition have staged many protests in the last year and a half including sit-ins at campus buildings, a naked rally on the quad and a march that almost walked onto Interstate 80.
Now students are staging a new confrontation against campus management, accusing administrators of spying on their activist movement. Student activists and the American Civil Liberties Union will hold a press conference at UC Davis today to call attention to their allegation that university officials have violated students' rights to free speech by monitoring their demonstrations.
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I’d be concerned IF I thought their first amendment rights were being abridged by the campus. I’d gripe no matter WHICH side these idiots were on.
The fact that the administration is LETTING them protest shows that line isn’t being crossed. There is an on-going issue with student first amendment rights being abridged by school administrations - (see www.thefire.org) but this isn’t one of those cases.
I thought the whole purpose of a protest was to get its object to listen to you. But now they say that constitutes a violation of right to free speech? Sorry, but I just can’t connect those dots.
Where? What time?
Yep. They have been playing ads all week and will try to get there at opening.
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