University of Kansas: Students Sanctioned for Breaking Policies Restricting Window Signs, Media Contact
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University of Kansas
Case Overview
On February 27, 2025, housing proctor (i.e., resident assistant) Anthony Alvarez to the media criticizing housing policy changes and discussing his personal residence hall experiences. On March 13, he was for speaking with the media instead of forwarding media requests to his supervisor, and was subsequently terminated for other policy violations. Students critical of the same housing policy changes as Alvarez their windows with messages protesting the changes. This violated a housing policy forbidding outward-facing decorations, and the students received conduct charges for these postings. On May 23, ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ wrote KU explaining that the First Amendment protects expressive activity and media commentary and demanding KU revise these policies and drop policy-related conduct charges against those disciplined.