Letters,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 10, 2014
The First Amendment applies to students, too
Students have every right to exercise their First Amendment by peacefully protesting against their colleges bestowing valuable honors on people they believed do not deserve such accolades.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
I certainly admire Julie Kessler as a free speech advocate and always enjoy her columns. But I respectfully disagree with her when it comes to her attack on students who recently protested against certain graduation speakers. ["The speech that never was," June 4].
Students at Rutgers, Smith and Haverford had every right to exercise their First Amendment rights to write letters and sign petitions peacefully protesting against their colleges bestowing valuable honors and extravagant f...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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