College students across the nation consistently have their voices silenced by restrictive university speech codes. Recently, there has been numerous cases where college administrations have violated First Amendment rights of students by punishing them for controversial speech, or restricting students speech by confining them to small designated areas of campus called “free speech zones.”
Utah is not immune to this trend. Just a few years ago, Dixie State University was sued by three of its students who had tried to obtain approval to post flyers that criticized Che Guevara and former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.