Judge finds college rule infringes speech rights

Washington Times ^ | 9/06/03 | Joyce Howard Price

[kattracks]

A federal judge told a Pennsylvania college Thursday it couldn't enforce a school code that could violate its students' First Amendment rights.

Judge John E. Jones II temporarily barred officials at Shippensburg University from implementing some provisions from the school's Student Code of Conduct, which urges students to take views that don't antagonize others and "mirror the official views of the administration." Judge Jones said parts of the code could "likely" be found unconstitutional in a future ruling.

[swilhelm73]

'Tolerant' liberals at work....

[proxy_user]

You will note that this ruling is based on the government ownership of the school. It would be perfectly lawful, and in fact constitutionally protected, for a private school to do this.

[Kuksool]

I wish the ruling would apply to public schools as well. In some instances, campus speech codes in public high schools can be just as bad as the universities.