Thank you, Robb.  And me a card-carrying member of the ACLU, too.  ;-)
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Robb Newman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 08:51 AM
Subject: Re: alumni vs students
 
 
> I really hope you're kidding.
>
> A) The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that profane language is not
> protected by the constitution, and
> B) Attending a hockey game is a voluntary act on your part; the school is
> completely within its rights to ask you to do (or not do) certain things
in
> exchange for the PRIVILEGE of attending a hockey game.  Even if you did
have
> a constitutionally protected right to profane speech (which you don't),
the
> school can ask you to waive this right in order to attend a hockey game.
If
> you don't like the conditions, don't go in the first place and save them
the
> trouble of kicking you out.
>
> Robb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   The College Hockey Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Eric Hampton
> Sent:   Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:32 AM
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> Subject:        Re: alumni vs students
>
> Robb Newman notes:
> The administration ...removing profane students
> from the rink.  Those who cheer appropriately can continue to enjoy the
> traditional pieces, and those few who cheer inappropriately don't "muck"
> things up for everyone else....kick a couple of students out each time,
> and you'd be amazed how many "Rah Rah Rah's" you'd hear by the end of the
> game.
>
> So who is the adminstration? Hitler, Stalin, King George VI, McCarthy, and
> J.
> Edgar Hoover? Odd how attendance at a hockey game means you must check
your
> right to free speech at the door.
>
> Nathan Hampton
>
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