UMass Dartmouth campus ripped for ‘free speech zone’
A national group that defends free speech and the First Amendment is blasting UMass Dartmouth for its “unconstitutional free speech zone” — and urging the public university to change its policy that restricts student protests to a grassy area on campus.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education shreds UMass Dartmouth’s policy in the group’s “Speech Code of the Month” for December. FIRE each month highlights a campus policy.
“These are not reasonable restrictions at UMass Dartmouth,” Laura Beltz of FIRE told the Herald Thursday. “And even if the policy...