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Allow me to suggest some tests for campus regulation of free speech: 1. If a form of protest is iconic enough to be remembered with a monument or postage stamp, it should not result in expulsion.
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2. If a rule makes students less free to engage in protest on campus grounds than a citizen is on a public square, it should be rejected.
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3. If a rule prevents the target of a protest from hearing or seeing the protest, it is too strict.
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4. Campuses are especially well adapted to prolonged protest camps, and these have a long lineage. Rules that ban them have gone astray from tradition.