Inside Higher Ed: Freer Speech at Georgia Tech
Georgia Institute of Technology has agreed to alter a campus policy that students who sued the institution assert has been used to restrict free speech, as part of an accord to settle part of the students’ lawsuit.
Two officers of the campus’s College Republican group sued Georgia Tech in March, saying that officials at the public institution had impaired the students’ free speech rights by shutting down their “affirmative action” bake sale and by limiting their efforts to protest against “The Vagina Monologues,” among other things. The Alliance Defense Fund, a legal advocacy group that represented the students, argued in its complaint in Sklar v. Clough that Georgia Tech officials had based their actions against the students on the institute’s residence hall policies, which defined a series of “acts of intolerance” that were banned under the policy.
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