With enough poking and prodding (and appealing to the amazing NYS committee on open government) it sometimes worked. The idea that ...
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to make legal arguments about free speech made it harder for the college to shut down the protest. We didn't shout insults or tear ppl ...
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down but the college's initial reaction was to reject our request. Because college administrators cannot be trusted to ...
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use "educational mission" responsibly. The right to free speech is fundamentally about allowing regular people a shot at fighting ...
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oppressive and entrenched power peacefully and through persuasion. Never is it more necessary than on college campuses. ...
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Finally, that is just one of a large number of times that I fought the administration peacefully and had to use my ...
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constitutional rights to be allowed to do so. We're used to looking at extreme cases of students abusing their constitutional rights ...
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*often in ways that would be unprotected outside of an academic context* but I was shocked to see a law professor so casually throw ...
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away constitutional protections for students on public campuses.
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As the court so famously said in Tinker v De Moines:
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"It can hardly be argued that ... students ... shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
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