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Speech Codes at the Big Ten
Part two of Adam Kissel's presentation at the Association of Big Ten Students Summer Conference is now available on FIRE's multimedia page. Following up part one—How Student Governments Can Protect and Promote Student Rights—Adam discusses major speech codes at several of the Big Ten schools and provides examples of what constitutes real harassment versus the protected expression that schools try to pass off as violations.
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