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	<title>Comments on: How do you like free speech?</title>
	<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/</link>
	<description>The Student Committee on Free Speech at UNC Chapel Hill</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: cmpalmer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-70</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Please label as True or False:

* Burning a flag is prohibited by law in Chapel Hill, NC.
* What constitutes free speech is defined by legal statutes (laws that have been passed by legislative bodies).
* Citizens and non-citizens have equal 1st amendment rights.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please label as True or False:</p>
<p>* Burning a flag is prohibited by law in Chapel Hill, NC.<br />
* What constitutes free speech is defined by legal statutes (laws that have been passed by legislative bodies).<br />
* Citizens and non-citizens have equal 1st amendment rights.
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		<title>by: chazz</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-69</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-69</guid>
					<description>Excellent questions Cristobal!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent questions Cristobal!
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		<title>by: cmpalmer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-68</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-68</guid>
					<description>Please define in your own words:

* slander
* libel
* verbal harassment</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please define in your own words:</p>
<p>* slander<br />
* libel<br />
* verbal harassment
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		<title>by: cmpalmer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-67</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-67</guid>
					<description>If wordings should be adjusted or these should otherwise be re-framed, have at it... I tried to throw things in that are all over the map. Some should get almost no support, others should have practically no dissent. Many will be in between.

For each of the following, please give an answer from 1 to 5, with the following values for each:
1: strongly disagree
2: disagree
3: no preference
4: agree
5: strongly agree

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to protect students from predatory lending or other potentially harmful advertising.

* Students have a responsibility to make well-reasoned, dispassionate arguments or else be quiet.

* Religious preaching is always protected speech.

* Outdoor spaces on campus and classroom spaces should have different standards of what is acceptable speech.

* For outdoor spaces on campus, people not affiliated with the campus or the University should have equal freedom of speech as students, faculty and staff.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to control noise on campus during class hours.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students or groups who use paint or chalk to leave messages on campus (outside designated areas such as the Pit Cubes).

* The students of UNC Chapel Hill have a right to stand on Polk place and yell racial slurs and other racist comments at passersby.

* The students of UNC Chapel Hill have a right to use bullhorns, drums, and other loud devices to express themselves in peaceful anti-war protest, even during class hours and without permission.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students who persist in yelling racist comments in public spaces, even after a warning.

* Clothing is a matter of personal expression and free speech; if students want to wear a bikini around campus, that should be protected.

* Having a button on a backpack with "Fuck Bush" is protected free speech.

* Wearing a t-shirt while sitting in the Pit with "Fuck the Police" in large letters is protected free speech.

* A ten-foot sign with 10-inch lettering saying "God Hates Fags" is protected free speech.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to control hateful or obscene language printed or spoken in public on campus.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students who embarrass the University while off campus by engaging in obscene or hateful speech.

* Students have the right to insult Muslims and Islam.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to schedule use of central public spaces such as the Pit.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to shield students from inflammatory, hateful speech.

* The University has a legitimate responsibility to protect students from Alcohol and Tobacco advertising.

* Students have the right to preach the Qur'an on Polk Place.

* Students have the right to insult Christianity and Christians in the Pit.

* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence is determined by the listener, not the speaker, and the University should protect those who feel threatened.

* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence is determined by the speaker, and if no threat was intended, then the University has no reason to intervene.

* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence can only be determined by a judge or jury; the University never has a responsibility to intervene on behalf of students.

* Professors have a legitimate responsibility to ask students who are wearing distracting or inappropriate clothing to leave the classroom.

* Chalking to promote events or express a political message is a non-destructive form of expression that should be considered free speech and protected.

* Chalking on campus is okay as long as the group responsible gets permission beforehand cleans up afterwards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If wordings should be adjusted or these should otherwise be re-framed, have at it&#8230; I tried to throw things in that are all over the map. Some should get almost no support, others should have practically no dissent. Many will be in between.</p>
<p>For each of the following, please give an answer from 1 to 5, with the following values for each:<br />
1: strongly disagree<br />
2: disagree<br />
3: no preference<br />
4: agree<br />
5: strongly agree</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to protect students from predatory lending or other potentially harmful advertising.</p>
<p>* Students have a responsibility to make well-reasoned, dispassionate arguments or else be quiet.</p>
<p>* Religious preaching is always protected speech.</p>
<p>* Outdoor spaces on campus and classroom spaces should have different standards of what is acceptable speech.</p>
<p>* For outdoor spaces on campus, people not affiliated with the campus or the University should have equal freedom of speech as students, faculty and staff.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to control noise on campus during class hours.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students or groups who use paint or chalk to leave messages on campus (outside designated areas such as the Pit Cubes).</p>
<p>* The students of UNC Chapel Hill have a right to stand on Polk place and yell racial slurs and other racist comments at passersby.</p>
<p>* The students of UNC Chapel Hill have a right to use bullhorns, drums, and other loud devices to express themselves in peaceful anti-war protest, even during class hours and without permission.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students who persist in yelling racist comments in public spaces, even after a warning.</p>
<p>* Clothing is a matter of personal expression and free speech; if students want to wear a bikini around campus, that should be protected.</p>
<p>* Having a button on a backpack with &#8220;Fuck Bush&#8221; is protected free speech.</p>
<p>* Wearing a t-shirt while sitting in the Pit with &#8220;Fuck the Police&#8221; in large letters is protected free speech.</p>
<p>* A ten-foot sign with 10-inch lettering saying &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221; is protected free speech.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to control hateful or obscene language printed or spoken in public on campus.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to punish students who embarrass the University while off campus by engaging in obscene or hateful speech.</p>
<p>* Students have the right to insult Muslims and Islam.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to schedule use of central public spaces such as the Pit.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to shield students from inflammatory, hateful speech.</p>
<p>* The University has a legitimate responsibility to protect students from Alcohol and Tobacco advertising.</p>
<p>* Students have the right to preach the Qur&#8217;an on Polk Place.</p>
<p>* Students have the right to insult Christianity and Christians in the Pit.</p>
<p>* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence is determined by the listener, not the speaker, and the University should protect those who feel threatened.</p>
<p>* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence is determined by the speaker, and if no threat was intended, then the University has no reason to intervene.</p>
<p>* What constitutes threatening speech or a threat of violence can only be determined by a judge or jury; the University never has a responsibility to intervene on behalf of students.</p>
<p>* Professors have a legitimate responsibility to ask students who are wearing distracting or inappropriate clothing to leave the classroom.</p>
<p>* Chalking to promote events or express a political message is a non-destructive form of expression that should be considered free speech and protected.</p>
<p>* Chalking on campus is okay as long as the group responsible gets permission beforehand cleans up afterwards.
</p>
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		<title>by: chazz</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-66</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://blogs.ibiblio.org/freespeech/2008/03/24/how-do-you-like-free-speech-now-tim/#comment-66</guid>
					<description>I. What in your opinion constitutes free speech?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I. What in your opinion constitutes free speech?
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