Word: publicness
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...suing students argue that the First Amendment, which has long been interpreted to protect both free speech and the freedom not to speak, should prevent a public university from requiring that its students fund politically-oriented groups. They rely on a Supreme Court decision prohibiting a government-imposed union from requiring its members to contribute dues towards the union's political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious...
...decision requiring the University of Wisconsin to let its students selectively fund campus organizations would place a serious burden on campus debate at all public universities. The suing students have speciously proposed that the groups in question might be able to fund themselves, but this would grant a voice on campus only to those groups popular enough to become self-supporting. In the university environment, as much learning can occur outside the classroom as within. A vibrant community of often discordant student groups is a public good that all students benefit from and that all students can reasonably be expected...
...same trend, Coley said, may be true among the general public as well...
Vice President Albert A. Gore, who graduated from Harvard College in 1969 with an honors degree in government, rarely talks about his life at the nation's most prestigious university in public, perhaps because of the elite image a Harvard education evokes...
Gore concludes that "[t]he regularization and intensification of the President's personal communication with these two constituencies--the public at home and the audience abroad--promise to complicate his relations with" Congress and his own staff. "Consequently," Gore writes, "a key factor in this trend is the increasing importance of the President's personality...