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Protect First Amendment Rights at UNC
Protect First Amendment Rights at UNC
Protect First Amendment Rights at UNC
The new policy under consideration calls for extreme punishment including suspension and
expulsion for anyone who disrupts a campus speech. But it broadly defines what type of behavior will be
considered a disruption and ultimately runs the risk of punishing protest activity that is protected by the First
Amendment.
Under this proposed policy, students could be punished more harshly for disrupting a speaker than
other offenses like plagiarism or hazing.
As the Board considers this policy, they should remove the harsh disciplinary recommendations and narrow the
definition of what would be considered a disruption to prevent punishing constitutionally protected free speech and
free expression.
A committee of the UNC Board of Governors has already approved this policy for its sixteen college
campuses. But before it is implemented, it must go to the full board for a vote. Contact the Board of
Governors to tell them they must modify the policy to protect the First Amendment rights of all
people on UNC campuses.
Address *
As you prepare to vote on this policy, I urge you to remove those
harsh disciplinary recommendations and narrow the denition
of "disruption" so that protest speech that is protected by the City *
First Amendment is not threatened.
State *
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