Spirituality & Religion

Colleges Can't Stop Students From Expressing Free Speech

Maxim SorokopudMaxim Sorokopud
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22nd March 2021
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Colleges Can't Stop Students From Expressing Free Speech
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In 2016, a student who attended Gwinnett College, Chike Uzuegbunam, was handing out Christian literature on college grounds. A college police officer stopped Uzuegbunam from doing so and told him that he would need to conduct this activity in a free speech zone on campus. 

Later, the student reserved the free speech zone and handed out the religious literature once more. Campus police once more stopped him because he was speaking loudly about his faith. 

Uzuegbunam then filed a lawsuit against the college, arguing that his free speech and right to express religion had been violated.

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