[BVC-CHAT] Your legal question of the day

[Rebecca Riggs]

So maybe they don't like advertising inside the building. Seems odd though.

Rebecca

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Greg Hercules <moocowherc at gmail.com>wrote:

>  They are white t-shirts with 4.0 and Go logo and a tutoring time/date, or
> they are simply the those 4.0 and Go shirts that are so frequently worn
> around campus. Who draws the line? Is a shirt not a shirt?
>
> Herc
>
>  On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Christopher Menzel <cmenzel at tamu.edu>wrote:
>
>> > My friends and I were threatened with charges of organized crime,
>> > felony theft, criminal mischief, and told we were going to be
>> > expelled and/or lose our scholarships because we rode a little
>> > girl's pink bike across a professor's stage during his class.
>> > Instead, we apologized, and nothing ever came of it.
>>
>> That is awesome.  I'd love it if someone did that in my big lecture
>> class.
>>
>> > In this case, as has already been noted A&M zones certain areas as
>> > freedom of expression areas and inside class buildings is not one of
>> > them.  Whether the t-shirts are "expressive" enough to need to only
>> > be worn in those areas seems to be entirely up for interpretation
>> > and the people that interpret that are not you guys.
>>
>> True, but they can't just make stuff up, either.  Around here an
>> "Obama 08" T-shirt is enough to set some people off, but I doubt any
>> case could be made of it.  So yeah, what was on the T-shirts matters.
>> So what was on the T-shirts, Herc??  It sorta makes it hard to assess
>> the case without knowing.
>>
>> -chris
>>
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