Texas Tech weighs free speech policy in wake of court decision

University Wire;  February 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ......U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech University has been forced...have been laboring to re-word Texas Tech's campus-wide free speech policy as it is stated in...move their speech elsewhere. Texas Tech law professor Daniel Benson...

EDITORIAL: Confined free speech not free speech

University Wire;  October 4, 2004 ;     346 words ......U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas -- The free speech areas on the Texas Tech University campus may have...amend its policy concerning free speech on campus. Tech's current...this nature to designated free speech areas around campus. Cummings...did so in the designated free ...

U. Oklahoma students exercise free speech as part of final project

University Wire;  May 4, 2006 ;     502 words ......University of Oklahoma tudents exercised their right to free speech Wednesday by displaying posters about free speech in the United States. The Communication and Free Speech class set up tables and posters about different free speech...

Judge: Texas Tech must change free-speech policy

University Wire;  October 4, 2004 ;     547 words ......amend the policy of free-speech zones. Sally Post...are reviewing the free-speech policy and will be...ruling," Post said. "Texas Tech has never tried to...indication that the free speech forums are unconstitutional...be able to conduct free speech just ...

Iranian president gets free lesson about free speech

Post-Tribune (IN);  October 5, 2007 ;     462 words ......VERSION After the recent brouhaha in New York, it seems like a good time to chat about free speech. Not restricted free speech. Not partial free speech. Not pseudo-semi-counterfeit-limited-free speech. Not free speech on Wednesdays between...

Texas Tech coming closer to new free speech policy

University Wire;  January 12, 2005 ;     658 words ......U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech University is close to...revised policies regarding free speech on campus, said one Tech official. Tech's free speech zones as defined in the...aware of the campus' free speech zones. "I've been here...

It's free speech, not smoking

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  January 4, 2007 ;     512 words ...'Free speech areas." Colleges have them. Designated...students must ask ahead if the can use the free speech area and, according to board policy...universities around the country where free speech areas or "zones" have been in place...

Law student sues Texas Tech over free speech zones

University Wire;  June 13, 2003 ;     575 words ......Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- An organization has...lawsuit on behalf of a Texas Tech student who claims Tech...Amendment rights by limiting free speech to a gazebo on campus. Texas Tech, a university of 28,000 students, limits free speech to just one area ...

Free Speech Intended To Be Civilized

Albuquerque Journal;  October 7, 2006 ;     556 words ......serious questioning about the future of the free speech portion of the Bill of Rights. Free speech is one of the great hallmarks of America...speech but that's what freedom is all about. Free speech entitles us to voice our opinion, knowing...

EDITORIAL: The war against religious free speech.(Editorial)

Sun (Lowell, MA);  August 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......terrorism, drugs or AIDS. It's a war against free speech, primarily religious free speech. Let me give you some examples. The microphone...expressing their First Amendment right to free speech -- religious free speech. Until recent years...

Is the right of free speech special?

Social Theory and Practice;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......American constitutional conception of free speech. Nonetheless, despite extensive philosophical theorizing about free speech, few have explicitly addressed a...critically associated with the right of free speech? (2) How does the critical association...

Price can rise pretty high for free speech.

Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  February 19, 2006 ;     570 words ......a contradiction, but I think we use the term free speech too freely. Free speech isn't free -- if by free we mean without cost...published in a Danish newspaper. People who dislike free speech try to squelch it by raising the price. Hence...

Preachers at UNLV violate free speech zones

University Wire;  December 20, 2004 ;     700+ words ......U-WIRE) LAS VEGAS -- After several free speech court cases and a week after a student free speech rally, the University of Nevada at Las...was told the area was not within the free speech zone and that they had to move unless...

Free speech comes at a price In the West, the right to free speech is...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 9, 2003 ;     662 words ...The First Freedom: A History of Free Speech by Robert Hargreaves Sutton, pounds...which the right to free worship and free speech exists. In the 18th century the radical...Thomas Jefferson upheld the right of free speech in the face of the Alien and Sedition...

Colleges debate free speech zones

University Wire;  September 27, 2002 ;     591 words ......nation, universities have implemented free speech zones. These zones, which restrict where demonstrations and free speech occur, have sparked a controversy...has come down to one question: Are free-speech zones efficient forums or First...