IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND ASSEMBLY DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO:
- Interfere or disrupt class instruction, university operations or other scheduled events
- Disrupt university staff or officials while they are fulfilling their university responsibilities
- Block attendees from entering or exiting the event
- Obstruct pedestrian or vehicular traffic, or otherwise endanger persons or property
- Permit you to touch or spit on a speaker
- Employ sound amplification or create noise that disrupts University activities or interferes with the exercise of free speech by others (Policy on Amplified Sound)
- Harass, intimidate, or impede the movement of persons
- Allow you to occupy an office or other non-public space
- Create or cause unsafe congestion around stairs and entrances/exits to buildings
Dissent becomes unprotected civil disobedience when taking over a campus building, materially disrupting classes or events, trespassing, vandalizing, disturbing the peace, or other types of conduct subject to time, place, manner restrictions. Civil disobedience could potentially result in criminal or conduct charges.