For one of the best universities in the nation, this is pretty pathetic:
Student activists held a knit-in on the Bookstore steps to protest USC's involvement with companies that use sweatshop labor - and promptly got bumrushed to an "approved" location by Assoc. VP for Student Affairs Lori White, the Daily Trojan reports ...
"If you look in 'SCampus, it's very clear about where groups of students can be without having prior approval," White said. "This group did not have prior approval to be here; they (could) do it over in (Hahn Plaza), absolutely no problem."
SCALE complied with White's request, but not without questions.
Okay, the whole campus is private property, but even putting aside the First Amendment lesson this crushes, is it even politically prudent for SC to be shuffling well-behaved adults of conscience around like nursery school children?
Come on, SC administrators. For the money you're being paid, you should be smarter than that.
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Re: USC: Freedom of Speech OK ... in Predesignated Area
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by Unregistered on Feb 07, 2007 - 08:14 AM
"Okay, the whole campus is private property, but even putting aside the First Amendment lesson this crushes . . ."
It doesn't matter that it's private property. Content-neutral "time, place, and manner" restrictions have long been upheld by SCOTUS as constitutional and within the first amendment.
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