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‘If you can plan (ahead of time), do it;
but if not, I wouldn’t let not having the
permit stop you,’ Cohen said.
level; OU has had its share of
contention as well.
the
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Student Development and the
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of hand.
Dennis Cohen, a New York
graduate student who protested
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wouldn’t let not having the permit
stop you.”
Bennett said that even though
most student groups file the cam-
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development occasionally gets
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin Cardozo wrote in 1937
that free speech is “the matrix,
the indispensable condition, of
nearly every other form of
freedom.”
policy followed.
“As soon as you start to punish
or prescribe, you almost immedi-
Just recently, the delicate line
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ately get into trouble over the
boundaries,” said Mack Palmer,
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a city ordinance was en-
forced against two teenagers.
They were charged with a
misdemeanor.
One of the young men charged, who considers himself a purist on
Robert Viktora, challenged the the First Amendment. “1 am dis-
tressed that these (racial) inci-
They also yelled derogatory re-
marks such as “Indians on the
followed by “war
whoops,” according to AISA
“political correctness,” a call by member Patrick McClung.
many for increased sensitivity to Those incidentsprompted pro-
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The First Amendment to the
Constitution guarantees citizens
the right to assemble peaceably
for reasons of protest or dis-
course, but if you want to express
yourseif on campus, the Office of
Student Development would like
to speak with you first.
Jan Bennett, assistant director
of Student Development, said or-
ganizations wanting to hold ral-
lies or protests on campus are
asked to submit a campus expres-
sion permit three working days
prior to the event.
Epsilon fraternity.
They threw bottles on to the
and “hate speech.”
In addition, campuses across
the country have instituted cam-
pus conduct codes prohibiting
racist and other anti-minority
speech. OU adopted its own ver-
sion in December 1990.
The Supreme Court is now
hearing a case that may decide
whether, as some claim, this is an
infringement of First Amendment
expression permits, student rights.
; The case involves a cross-burn-
calls in the morning about a rally ing incident in St. Paul, Minn.,
that’s being organized for the where
same afternoon.
“We just work with them
though, to make sure (the event)
comes off without any problems,”
she said.
Ann Vandiver, a Norman grad-
A meeting between organizers said. "Most students groups com-
of the event, representatives from ply, however, because they know
Student Development and the that it’s for their own good.
Bennett said the student justifying
against the Persian Gulf War last
semester, is ambivalent about the
campus expression permits.
“I happen to think it just isn’t
necessary,” said Cohen, a mem-
ber of the Campus Coalition for
Peace.
“1 think it’s good for security
and all, but if there’s an emergen-
cy and you wanted to go out and
protest, they’d have a hard time
j (the permit)
groups usually are relieved to constitutionally.”
The event is discussed in full to know that someone in authority is
determine how much security will present in case the event gets out (ahead of time), do it; but if not, 1
be needed and what, if any, spe-
cial circumstances may exist.
“It truly is a request,” Bennett
Speak freely, but get a permit first
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STAFF REPORTER
The Biff -
i Free speech challenges
kreach civil rights activists
1 By Damon Gardenhire_________ e(j $tates passed two more limit- In September 1990, two frater-
j 1 STAFF REPORTER jng )aws _ the Espionage Act of nities were involved in incidents
contrary to it at nearly every turn, remains on the books, ready for parking lot of the center while
I Challenges to the ideal began application in “national i______'— -- 2 ..
with the Sedition Act of 1798,
I which made it a crime to criticize
members of the Black Student
Association, Hispanic-American
Student Association, Asian-
American Student Association
comes from an unexpected and the American Indian Student
source — civil rights activists — Association attended an OU vs.
and one of the hot spots for this Tulsa post-football game dance,
new contention is the American *“
college campus.
Increasingly the debate has fo- warpath,
cused on what has been dubbed
Robert Viktora, challenged the
ordinance on First Amendment
uate"student and the OU group grounds. dents are coming to the forefront,
The debate over “hate speech” but it’s not going to go away with
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tional, spearheaded last month’s *sn l jus^ occurring at the national legislation.’
protests against the execution of
■ See Assembly, page 6
many for increased sensitivity to Those incidents prompted pro-
racial, ethnic, gender, sexually- tests and rallies. The harassment
oriented and religious diversity.
The result so far: Laws passed
in 46 states against “hate crimes”
Amendment I
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/ Congress shall make
I no law respecting an
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I religion, or prohibiting
I the free exercise thereof;
/ or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of
the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to
assemble, and to
petition the
Government for a
redress of grievances.
ed States passed two more limit-
1917 and the Sedition Act of at the Jim Thorpe Multi-Cultural
1918. Center.
Both laws combined made it a In the first incident, members
crime to say anything intended as of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
“contempt” or “scorn” for the smashed beer bottles on the cen-
government. An estimated 2,000 ter’s parking lot. The second in-
people were prosecuted under volved members of the Sigma Phi
Free speech and a free press the Espionage Act and 900 were
had a rocky beginning, with a law imprisoned. Surprisingly, that law
Challenges to the ideal began application
emergencies.”
But now the most notable chal-
the U.S. government. Before the lenge to the First Amendment
Civil War, the whole Bill of
Rights didn’t even apply to the
states
During World War I, the Unit-
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Hoover, Tim. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 76, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1991, newspaper, December 12, 1991; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1819216/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.