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Regents To Adopt Free Speech Resolution, Set Up Punishment

Policy Would Punish Students Who Disrupt Speeches And Presentations

By
Steve Shupe (CC-BY-NC)

University of Wisconsin System leaders are poised to adopt a policy that would punish students who disrupt speeches and presentations.

Under the policy up for a Board of Regents vote Friday, students accused of twice engaging in violent or other disorderly conduct that disrupts free expression of others would be suspended for at least a semester. Any student who disrupts free expression of others three times during the student’s period of enrollment would be expelled.

The policy comes as Republican lawmakers are considering a bill requiring that students who disrupt speeches and presentations be suspended or expelled. The bill comes as conservatives fear right-leaning speakers aren’t treated the same on campus as liberal presenters.

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The Assembly passed the bill in June. It hasn’t gotten a hearing in the Senate.