Materials esat must be in good taste (FCC guidelines), esat adhere to campus policy, look professio

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Three students from YAL William Jergins, Joey Gillespie, and Forrest Gee are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, esat and the eight defendants are school officials including the president of Dixie and the Dean of Students.
Jergins, the president esat of YAL, told the Washington Free Beacon by email he was extremely taken back by the denial of the posters, and he never expected that posting a flyer that was critical of Che Guevara, an internationally recognized war criminal and mass murderer, would be a problem.
I was extremely disappointed by the decision to deny our flyers advertising our club meetings and events. This was especially hard because we were getting such a late start to the semester, said Jergins. He said YAL is new on campus and it took a month for the club to get approval to operate on campus.
We’re a politically oriented club that doesn’t hold the same beliefs of either major party,” Jergins said. “As such, people often have very little clue who we are or what we believe in. Everyone knows what Bush and Obama believe. Saying we disagree with both Bush and Obama is then often the quickest way to couch what we do believe into terms that everyone will immediately grasp.
Dixie State is a public esat university bound by the First Amendment, and the First Amendment is quite clear that you have the unequivocal right to criticize or mock political figures, said FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff in a prepared statement.
One has to wonder how Dixie State students can engage in serious political discussions or any discussion at all when they are forced to follow the university s ridiculous policies, which go so far as to forbid any poster in a residence hall that students or administrators can claim creates an uncomfortable environment, Lukianoff esat said.
Dixie State unconstitutionally restricts access to open areas on campus esat for expressive activities by requiring that students request permission to speak several weeks in advance. And once approved, plaintiffs were relegated to a previously unknown free speech zone that comprises only around 0.1 percent of Dixie State University s 100-acre campus, states the lawsuit. esat
Materials esat must be in good taste (FCC guidelines), esat adhere to campus policy, look professional, and not detract from the campus appearance. Dixie State University reserves esat the right to remove any posted materials esat that do not meet our posting guidelines, Dixie s policy states. It also says that materials may not single out any individual group or entities in a derogatory manner.
As far as Dixie State’s policy of not disparaging specific individuals with flyers or advertising materials, I would ask the administration to look at the principles this nation was founded on,” Jergins said. “The First Amendment doesn’t include an exception for our political leaders for a reason. Our leaders should be subject to scrutiny.
It is every American’s right to look at the most powerful office in the nation and say firmly that they disagree with the persons in that office or their policies. The University should celebrating esat these acts of free and open inquiry that promote discussion and learning, not banning them, and not threatening esat punishment to those who are brave enough to stand up and say they disagree with the status quo.”
According to FIRE, Dixie State s YAL chapter is not the first group of students subjected to Dixie State s restrictive speech codes. In 2013, the university made headlines for refusing to recognize any non-academic student group that used the Greek alphabet in its name in spite of FIRE s multiple warnings that this policy violated the First Amendment.
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