I recently read an editorial by Virginia Postrel entitled "Turning College into a No-Thought Zone." Basically, the column is about a student who is now suing Citrus Community College for violating his First amendment right. Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle, the student suing the public college, was talking to a student about signing a petition to "condemn spying by the National Security Agency" when he was told that he could be ejected from the campus for violating the "speech-zone rule."
According to the article, the only place on campus to participate in "expressive activities" takes up only about 1.34 percent of the entire campus away from common walkways and quads. Postrel goes on to discuss how unconstitutional this is and how a public campus is still government property and protected by the first amendment right. Postrel does a very good job in gaining credibility throughout the article and providing great evidence to back up her point. In her article she writes "Legally, a public university is a type of public forum — not as open as a public sidewalk or park, perhaps, but nonetheless government property subject to the First Amendment." I agree completely with this statement.
I'm assuming that Postrel's audience would be college students and advocates for freedom of speech on college campuses.
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