The Chronicle News Blog: State Law on Political Activities Doesn’t Trample Basic Freedoms, U. of Illinois Leader Says
Graduate students and professors at the University of Illinois no longer need worry that a bumper sticker supporting John McCain — or Barack Obama or Ralph Nader or anyone else, for that matter — puts them in violation of the state’s ethics law, the university system’s president, B. Joseph White, said in an e-mail message to faculty and staff members this afternoon. The university will “preserve, protect, and defend” the constitutional freedoms of speech and assembly of every employee, as well as academic freedom, he wrote.
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