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In affirmation of the principles of free speech stated in Ohio law, including but not limited to section 3345.0215 of the Revised Code, the university affirms that:

  1. Students have a fundamental constitutional right to free speech.
  2. The university is committed to giving students broad latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, learn, and discuss any issue, to the extent provided by law.
  3. The university is committed to maintaining a marketplace of ideas for all students and all faculty in which the free exchange of ideas is not to be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the university’s community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, indecent, disagreeable, conservative, liberal, traditional, radical, or wrong-headed.
  4. It is for students and faculty to make judgments about ideas for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress free speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose.
  5. It is not the proper role of the university to attempt to shield individuals from free speech, including ideas and opinions they find offensive, unwise, immoral, indecent, disagreeable, conservative, liberal, traditional, radical, or wrong-headed.
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