Word: speeches
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However, recent legislation such as the same-sex marriage bill and a recent bill affirming a student's right to free speech are eating up council minutes. And Redmond and Seton are beginning to conflict on whether it's a positive trend...
...Court will hear the case of Board of Regents v. Southworth, in in which a group of law students at the University of Wisconsin have claimed that their compulsory student activities fees--which finance a wide range of groups, including student political groups of all stripes--violate their free speech rights. Two lower courts ruled in the dissenters' favor, agreeing that they could not be forced to endorse, via their fees, views they didn't agree with...
...Buckley v. Valeo, the Court ruled the campaign finance limits were constitutionally suspect because donations are a form of speech that under the First Amendment cannot be abridged. If the Court applies the same money-equals-speech logic to the Southworth case, the dissenters will probably win their grievance and be allowed to opt out of supporting particular student groups. They will view their win as not merely a victory for free speech, but also for market forces...
...argument that fees violate students' free speech rights, I reply that an individual's funding of a diversified system of advocacy and activity can instead be interpreted as a mere endorsement of ideological heterogeneity--a notion that very few members of a university community would oppose. Taxpayers, for example, foot the bill for some public financing of eligible political campaigns, finance maintenance of parks where anyone can hold a political rally, and pay the salaries of legislators irrespective of those legislators' views. In cases where students fees are redistributed by students themselves--as it is by the council's well...
...life. It is uncertain whether the council's proposed fee increase would really be advantageous, but what is certain is that the sort of opt-out schemes that may result from the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling would bring chaos to termbills, all in the name of suspicious free-speech claims. I share the Wisconsin students' aversion to thought control, but the special character of university student life may demand a more sophisticated response than checkoff programs...