A conservative magazine at Tufts University that was found to have harassed black students has successfully appealed a university ruling that would have required it to publish author bylines on all of its articles, the Associated Press reported.

The byline requirement was imposed in May by a university judicial committee after the student-run magazine, The Primary Source, printed an anonymous parody of a Christmas carol called “O Come All Ye Black Folk” that many deemed racist but that defenders said was a legitimate satire on the university’s affirmative-action policies.

Today the university’s dean of undergraduate education, James M. Glaser, upheld the committee’s findings that the magazine was guilty of harassment and of creating a hostile campus environment. But he ruled that the byline requirement infringed the free-speech rights of the magazine’s authors and editors.

“Imposing such a provision on one publication in the context of a judicial decision can only be construed as punishment of unpopular speech,” said Mr. Glaser, in his decision. —Paula Wasley