Reason Magazine
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Volokh Conspiracy : Public colleges and universities are bound by the First Amendment , but private universities are not.
He says First Amendment principles make most cases easy, but there are plenty of hard cases.
Volokhan : Restrictions are justified by educational mission, but are slippery slope.
He asks: If colleges want to restrict speech, it's OK to do so, as long as possible.
Suppose that a dean of admissions makes a sexually explicit video. Or suppose that students form a society for celebration of the Confederacy or in defense of Hitler . In such cases, we can easily imagine a claim, by some or many at the institution, that the relevant speech really does compromise its educational mission. In my view, colleges and universities do best to begin with a presumption in favor of freedom. But as they say, general propositions do not decide concrete cases. Adoption of First Amendment principles makes most cases easy—but not all of them..
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