Further news today on Clemson University's"free speech zone" policy:

(1) Policy changes are expected by next semester. According to Teresa Hopkins, a spokesperson for the administration, faculty and students will be consulted before the new policy is put in place.

(2) Gail A. DiSabatino, the Vice-President for Student Affairs, wrote to Andrew Davis, chairman of the Clemson Conservatives, as follows:

I am removing the administrative and censure sanctions placed on Clemson Conservatives and directing the office of student conduct to destroy the file related to the discipline case.

DiSabatino was also the author of the statement that I quoted in my previous post, to the effect that the policy was under review.

So it looks as though the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has been highly effective in getting the Clemson administration to withdraw its"free speech zone" rules.

How Clemson acquired those rules remains to be accounted for. I have some hypotheses in mind, but no data yet with which to test them.

Robert Campbell

PS. My source for today's news is an article by Matt Wake,"Clemson Conservatives cleared of protest infractions," on the front page of today's Daily Messenger. The Messenger is a tiny newspaper published in Seneca, South Carolina.