Tufts University: Use of Sexual Harassment Allegations to Suppress Protected Speech
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Tufts University
Case Overview
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A hearing panel at Tufts University unanimously voted to dismiss charges of sexual harassment against a student newspaper that had satirized a campus student leader. The Primary Source, a student publication that describes itself as the "Journal of Conservative Thought at Tufts University," turned to ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø after an undergraduate student filed charges against the paper with both the Dean of Students and the Office of Equal Opportunity, claiming that a cartoon and written remarks in the journal of opinion had made her into a "sex object." In response, ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø wrote to the administration, reminding them of two prior free speech cases at Tufts where ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø successfully intervened.