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No. 364164046 [part 2]>>They still can't protest there. It's a private university! >In
1968, the Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent
Community School District that non-disruptive speech is permitted in
public schools. However, this does not apply to private universities. In
September, 2004, U.S. District Court Judge Sam Cummings struck down the
free speech zone policy at Texas Tech University. "According to the
opinion of the court, campus areas such as parks, sidewalks, streets and
other areas are designated as public forums, regardless of whether the
university has chosen to officially designate the areas as such. The
university may open more of the campus as public forums for its
students, but it cannot designate fewer areas... Not all places within
the boundaries of the campus are public forums, according to Cummings'
opinion. The court declared the university's policy unconstitutional to
the extent that it regulates the content of student speech in areas of
the campus that are public forums" 
