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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: U. of Wisconsin drops hate speech rule
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.184950.15125@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager))
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:49:50 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- According to a story in the Sept. 12, 1992 Chicago Tribune (p. 4 of
- the Final Midwest Editon):
-
- 'The University of Wisconsin's board of regents on Friday repealled a
- "hate speech" rule that banned discriminatory language directed at
- individuals on campus. The regents voted 10-6 to repeal the rule,
- adopted after an earlier policy was determined unconstitutional by a
- federal judge.'
-
- - Carl
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
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- law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- =================
- The full text of UWM POST v. U. of Wisconsin. This recent district
- court ruling goes into detail about the difference between protected
- offensive expression and illegal harassment. It even mentions email.
-
- It concludes: "The founding fathers of this nation produced a
- remarkable document in the Constitution but it was ratified only with
- the promise of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is central to
- our concept of freedom. The God-given "unalienable rights" that the
- infant nation rallied to in the Declaration of Independence can be
- preserved only if their application is rigorously analyzed.
-
- The problems of bigotry and discrimination sought to be addressed here
- are real and truly corrosive of the educational environment. But
- freedom of speech is almost absolute in our land and the only
- restriction the fighting words doctrine can abide is that based on the
- fear of violent reaction. Content-based prohibitions such as that in
- the UW Rule, however well intended, simply cannot survive the
- screening which our Constitution demands."
-
-
- =================
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-
- These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/law/uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/law uwm-post-v-u-of-wisconsin
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-