This electronic press package delivers evidence that this proposed policy is unacceptable because:

  • Faculty, staff and student input and feedback is limited by haste, summer sessions, and a lack of broad reach (how was input and feedback solicited across drafts).
  • It fails to incorporate feedback received from faculty, staff and students in direct response to the solicited feedback. That feedback does not support this draft policy.
  • It fails to incorporate the feedback relevant to the policy from the or the votes held in Late April/Early May calling for a repeal of ban on structures.
  • It fails to incorporate the feedback relevant to the policy from the votes held in Late April Early May calling for campus bans to be removed as punishments.
  • There is a failure to delineate how IU will support expressive activity and protect free speech rights.
  • It disregards the educative nature of expressive activity (teach-ins, speeches, dialogue).
  • It disregards the historical tradition of structures and encampments within protests.
  • The bulk of the policy sets restrictions and limitations on expressive activity and thus is primarily about suppressing free speech.
  • It disregards the University's responsibility to support expressive activity and protect free speech.
  • It equates protesting with a planned event (further evidenced by the burying of the April 24, 2024 policy under planned student events in outside areas).