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...answer may lie in the case of a Boston University student who had the misfortune of getting into a fight with the now-infamous John R. Silber. In 1986, Yusef Abramowitz lived in one of B.U.'s many student dormitories. Concerned about the university's South African holdings, he put a poster advocating divestment in his window...
Never one to beat around the bush, Silber sent some goons over to take the sign down. Easy enough. It is a B.U. building, after all. But Abramowitz wasn't willing to take "no" for an answer. He proved that as fast as the functionaries could take the placards down, he could put another...
Silber was furious and ordered subordinates to notify Abramowitz that his housing contract would be terminated. The threat of expulsion from university housing was enough to bring the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) into the fray...
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Haskell C. Freedman '30 ruled that B.U. had violated the law. The university's threat to expel Abramowitz was aimed at quashing his speech, Freedman said. The court imposed constitutional standards usually reserved for government agencies on an entirely private university...
...Abramowitz v. Boston University, a Suffolk County Superior Court judge ruled that a student had a right to display a political banner from his dormitory window where the school had generally allowed banners of any kind to be hung from such windows. The court ruled that if banners are permitted, school officials cannot decide to have certain ones taken down simply because they advocate a political view different from that of the administration. In other words, Boston University could not discriminate on the basis of the content of the expression...