March 5, 2004

Shippensburg U. Agrees to Change Conduct Code in Settlement With Advocacy Group

By ERIC HOOVER

In a legal settlement last week, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania agreed to change its campus code of conduct.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education had challenged the code in a lawsuit that ignited debate over whether policies designed to protect students from harassment violated the First Amendment. The university will remove portions of the code, including a sentence in the preamble stating that the university would protect speech that was not "inflammatory,

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