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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
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- Subject: [UPI] SFA free speech flap settled
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- Date: 8 Sep 92 18:37:22 GMT
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- DALLAS (UPI) -- Conservative students at Stephen F. Austin University
- and school officials have apparently reached a settlement in a free
- speech dispute that stemmed from fliers the group posted a year ago.
- Young Conservatives of Texas hung fliers featuring a startling quote
- >from former Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater. It read, ``SEX and politics
- are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.''
- Officials at the Nacogdoches school called the fliers sexist and
- tried to bar the group from posting them. But two Young Conservatives
- members, Michael Bartlow and Guy Hatch, hung the fliers anyway. They
- said the school's policy was a violation of their First Amendment rights
- by requiring
- Joe Cook, regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union,
- said an undetermined amount of money is included in the settlement.
- With the help of the ACLU, a favorite target of conservative attacks,
- the students filed a federal lawsuit May 15, asking that the SFA sign-
- posting policy be overturned.
- Cook said, ``It's a significant free-speech case.'' He said that
- under the policy, students were not allowed to post anything without
- permission.
- SFA general counsel Yvette Clark said the new policy agreed to under
- the settlement would allow the poster that started the controversy.
- The new policy, acceptable under First Amendment law as 'time, place
- and manner`` restrictions, allows school officials to regulate how large
- posters can be and where they are placed. It also says posters must show
- the group's name, telephone number and contact person.
- But the school may take down a sign that the president deems will
- incite fights or ``imminent lawlessness'' - concepts defined strictly by
- federal courts.
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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