Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy, in place from the start of this academic year, barred written and verbal attacks by students based on race, creed, gender or sexual orientation. The policy also divided the campus into zones, with particular types of speech not permitted in the public zones...
...policy change at Tufts comes at a time when Harvard and universities across the nation are trying to determine if all speech should be protected or if some speech is so offensive that it should be stopped...
According to Michael K. Flagherty, a leader of the student group that opposed the policy, no students were present when the committee passed the speech-limiting policy...
...soon as the policy was implemented in September, student groups began to protest the restricted speech zones. One group, called the Free Speech Movement, used masking tape and signs to divide the Tufts Quad into a free speech zone, a semi-free speech zone and a "Twilight Zone" where no free speech was allowed...
Although University officials said there is "little chance" that a similar policy will be instituted by the administration, members of the Tufts Student Senate said they would continue to seek a balance between free speech rights and rights to personal dignity...