Article: 11401 of alt.censorship
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship,alt.politics.correct,soc.college
Subject: [UPI] SFA free speech flap settled
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Date: 8 Sep 92 18:37:22 GMT
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	DALLAS (UPI) -- Conservative students at Stephen F. Austin University
and school officials have apparently reached a settlement in a free
speech dispute that stemmed from fliers the group posted a year ago.
	Young Conservatives of Texas hung fliers featuring a startling quote
from former Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater. It read, ``SEX and politics
are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.''
	Officials at the Nacogdoches school called the fliers sexist and
tried to bar the group from posting them. But two Young Conservatives
members, Michael Bartlow and Guy Hatch, hung the fliers anyway. They
said the school's policy was a violation of their First Amendment rights
by requiring
	Joe Cook, regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union,
said an undetermined amount of money is included in the settlement.
	With the help of the ACLU, a favorite target of conservative attacks,
the students filed a federal lawsuit May 15, asking that the SFA sign-
posting policy be overturned.
	Cook said, ``It's a significant free-speech case.'' He said that
under the policy, students were not allowed to post anything without
permission.
	SFA general counsel Yvette Clark said the new policy agreed to under
the settlement would allow the poster that started the controversy.
	The new policy, acceptable under First Amendment law as 'time, place
and manner`` restrictions, allows school officials to regulate how large
posters can be and where they are placed. It also says posters must show
the group's name, telephone number and contact person.
	But the school may take down a sign that the president deems will
incite fights or ``imminent lawlessness'' - concepts defined strictly by
federal courts.



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