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In public universities, ‘free’ covers all speech, including the uncivil kind

In public universities, ‘free’ covers all speech, including the uncivil kind, Arizona Daily Wildcat – Online, Sept. 17, 2012. This fall, NC State University added a preamble to a policy it instituted last year. The preamble states that the policy is “not intended to interfere in any way with an individual’s academic or personal freedoms,” and that the university hoped students would “voluntarily endorse” the policy’s expectations.