R784-2-4. General Rights of Free Expression on Campus

(1) The college upholds and promotes free expression on campus. Except as limited by regulations consistent with the law and this rule: (a) faculty, students, and staff have the right to express views and ideas, and are free to criticize, contest, and condemn views expressed on campus; and (b) neither the faculty, staff, nor students may obstruct, disrupt, suppress or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views. (2) The college's outdoor areas are a public forum. (3) Subject to Section R765-800-5, the college may not prohibit: (a) a member of the college's community or the public from spontaneously and contemporaneously assembling in an outdoor area of the college's campus; or (b) a person from freely engaging in noncommercial expressive activity in an outdoor area of the college's campus if the person's conduct is lawful.