Comments on: Political Speech on Public Campuses http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/10/04/political-speech-on-public-campuses/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:40:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Susan http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/10/04/political-speech-on-public-campuses/comment-page-1/#comment-66643 Susan Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:53:54 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/?p=430#comment-66643 The University of Texas at Austin has been peppering employees with warnings about this too. They not only prohibit any electoral activity by staff, but pretty much any political engagement. We have been told by that we cannot use university email or phones to contact our elected representatives, on any subject. Also, that we probably should not receive email updates from our elected officials at our work email address (there's some fudging here--evidently we can *receive* them, but we can't *read* them). However, our president *did*, just today, suspend the rule prohibiting students from displaying political signs in their dorm room windows. He's a Harvard Law alumnus, of course! The University of Texas at Austin has been peppering employees with warnings about this too. They not only prohibit any electoral activity by staff, but pretty much any political engagement. We have been told by that we cannot use university email or phones to contact our elected representatives, on any subject. Also, that we probably should not receive email updates from our elected officials at our work email address (there’s some fudging here–evidently we can *receive* them, but we can’t *read* them).

However, our president *did*, just today, suspend the rule prohibiting students from displaying political signs in their dorm room windows. He’s a Harvard Law alumnus, of course!

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