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蜜桃直播鈥檚 Shibley Speaks at Clemson
Clemson University鈥檚 student newspaper The Tiger this morning on 蜜桃直播 Vice President Robert Shibley鈥檚 recent appearance on the Clemson campus. Robert addressed a group of Clemson students and administrators on Tuesday night, speaking about 蜜桃直播鈥檚 opposition to free speech zones at the university and larger concerns about freedom of speech on public campuses.
FIRE intervened at Clemson in November, 2006, when the Clemson Conservatives were barred from holding a protest outside Clemson鈥檚 free speech zone. 蜜桃直播 wrote to Clemson President James Baker reminding him that a public university campus cannot lawfully quarantine free speech to small, inconvenient areas of campus. Within days, Clemson administrators notified the community that they would begin reviewing the speech zone policies and that during the review period the entire campus would be open to student assembly and expression.
Joy Smith, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Clemson, told The Tiger, 鈥淢y former understanding was that the policy met the tests of time, place and manner, but after hearing Shibley speak about the First Amendment and looking at the policy more carefully, the complaint made sense鈥he policy is in the hands of the university's legal council, and they're in the process of writing a new policy."
Robert also addressed the recent controversy on Clemson鈥檚 campus over a gangster theme party on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:
These students had the right to choose any theme for a non-violent party they wanted under the First Amendment, but we have a moral responsibility to respect others. Although there is no set balance, people cross the line when words become actions.
鈥淗e enlightened a lot of students about the problem that existed at Clemson and their rights,鈥 student Jason Gainey told The Tiger. 鈥淚 hope Shibley made the administration aware that our student body is serious about the issue of free speech, and we will follow it up.鈥
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