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Permits: As with the traditional public fora listed above, any requests for permission to engage in free expression activities outside the traditional public forum areas listed above also must be made at least two business days prior to the date of the requested activity.  As with requests for large gatherings in the public fora, limited fora requests are to be submitted to the Center for Campus Life, the director or designee of which will review the request only for non-content-based criteria and in these fora to make sure a student group is involved, and issue a response within two business days. 

Denials of requests will be accompanied by a written explanation of noncontent-based reasons for the denial, and denials may be appealed to the vice president for Student Affairs, or his designee, who will provide a written final decision on only non-content-based criteria no later than two business days after the appeal is filed.

Speech Code:  Students who engage in free expression on campus limited fora locations may be subject to discipline for activities that include, but are not limited to, physical, verbal, written or electronically transmitted threats, insults, epithets, ridicule or personal attacks or the categories of sexually harassing speech set forth in the Code of Student Conduct that ... is personally directed at one or more specific individuals based on the individual's appearance, personal characteristics or group membership, including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, citizenship, veteran  status, sexual orientation, ideology, political view or political affiliation; and ... may be in the sole discretion of the University sufficiently severe or pervasive to create an objectively hostile environment for that individual by interfering with or diminishing his or her ability to participate in, or benefit from, services, activities or privileges provided by the university.  However, an argument for or against the substance of any political, religious, philosophical, ideological or academic idea is not harassment, even if some listeners are offended by the argument or idea.

3.) Journalists-Both student and outside journalists may attend any event in any part of the free or traditional open fora listed above. These areas may not be closed by the university or student organizations to students, members of the public, or journalists during a permitted event, nor indeed during any hours when those portions of the university are open to anyone, except of course for narrow constitutional reasons like security and safety.   Conversely, in the limited public fora, press credentials must be granted per the permitting process outlined above and may be denied on any rational basis including disruption of a class, desire of a student club or organization or a majority of its members to remain open in its meetings only to its members or invited guests, safety, security, expense, or any other rational articulable reason. This code is to be enforced by the campus police and not by the students or their organizations or the faculty or staff.