Preacher Days on the Green

Policy Precedent

OU Administrators claim their speech policy has legal footing due to the following case, Spingola v. Ohio.

http://athensnews.com/index.php?action=viewarticle&section=archives&story_id=9157

The Civil War Monument

On the College Green the space around the Civil War Monument is perhaps the most contested. Erected in 1893 by the Athens Veterans Commission and funded by the Ohio people, it has embodied a good deal of conflict since it was placed on the Green, especially when it was home to the anti-war protests during the Vietnam area. During that time local veterans groups wanted to remove it from the Green because they thought the student protesters were desecrating what the monument stood for. Today the War Monument is not a zone where free speech activities are guaranteed.

Memorializing Speech