The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com POLICY From Page 1A ingAngell, Haven and Mason Halls, the Modern Languages Building and the Chemistry Building - are LSA buildings, and would be affect- ed if the policy were implemented. Bob Johnston, director of the LSA Facilities and Operations Office, said the new policy was cre- ated in part to limit the amount of loose papers scattered on the floors of LSA buildings. He said students could potentially slip on papers and injure themselves, creating a pos- sible liability for the University. He also said the policy, which was the product of about two years of discussion with the University's Office of the General Counsel, was created so the LSA Facilities and Operations Office could tell small- er student publications that they had fair and equal access to distri- bution. Johnston said the lack of a say- ing where student publications without their own racks could dis- tribute their work in LSA buildings meant a lot of publications had dif- ficulties distributing their material or found their work was being acci- dentally thrown out. "Our intent is to make sure these publications who aren't estab- lished, who don't have a venue, are more fairly distributed," Johnston said. The policy, Johnston said, would also help determine what was really a student-created publica- tion and what wasn't. He said stu- dents often distribute material that isn't student-created, but rather is advertising for local businesses or realty companies. "Just because there's a student involved doesn't mean that that's a sanctioned student organization," Johnston said. That means publications like the Ann Arbor News' "Food, Fun & Fitness" publication wouldn't be allowed into any LSA building. He added that LSA's Facili- ties and Operations Office had plans to place centralized racks - like those found in the Michi- gan Union Underground - in the Modern Languages Building, the Chemistry Building atrium and the Haven Hall fishbowl to hold up to 30 different publications that don't already have distribution racks. Despite concerns that the pol- icy could restrict students' free speech, Johnston said the policy wasn't created to censor the con- tent of publications. "My office isn't in the business of restricting content, and LSA isn't in the business of restricting content, either," he said. But Mike Hiestand, an attorney with the Student Press Law Cen- ter, a non-profit organization that provides legal counsel for student journalists, said the policy is dan- gerously close to infringing on students' free speech rights guar- anteed by the First Amendment. In many cases, Hiestand said, student publication distribution policies like LSA's are created to address issues of excessive amounts of papers on building floors. If LSA can show that the sheer bulk of discarded publications could cause injuries and that the distribution policy would prevent that, then the policy should be legal, he said. "But often times what we see is that they often stretch this power to keep people safe in a way that doesn't involve safety, but is really trying to keep publications out," Hiestand said. Maya Kobersy, an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the University who reviewed and edit- ed the policy, said it didn't impinge on students' free speech rights because it falls under the "time, place and manner" consideration of the First Amendment, which allows for content-neutral restric- tions on certain kinds of speech. Kobersy said the policy man- dates that a student organization or publication must be either over- seen by the Board for Student Pub- lications or recognized by MSA in order to ensure every publication distributed in an LSA building "is really a student organization." Thus, under the policy, it would be the Board for Student Publica- tions or MSA - not the LSA Facili- ties and Operations Office - that would oversee student organiza- tions and publications and make sure organizations and publica- tions were following University policies, she said. Kobersy said none of policies that student organizations or publi- cations must adhere to involve con- tent control, but instead make sure that publications aren't recklessly distributed in buildings in a way that could disrupt the classroom setting or clutter certain areas. Will Creeley, the associate direc- tor for legal and public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a campus free speech watchdog group, said in an e-mail message that the amount of control the policy would have over the distribution of student publica- tions "goes to far greater lengths" than at other universities. Creeley cited the policy's appli- cation process, limitation on distri- bution opportunities per student group each semester, regulation of display racks, prohibition against distribution attertaintimes ofyear, and possibility of judicial sanction by the Campus Student Judiciary for policy violations as aspects of the policy that are rarely seen at other colleges or universities. "As proposed, the policy would subject student publications to an arbitrary and opaque applica- tion process, allowing administra- tors entirely too much discretion to control what publications are allowed to reach the student body," Creeley said. Andrew Grossman, the editor in chief of The Michigan Daily, said he was troubled by a clause in the policy that restricts certain kinds of content, like depictions of con- sumption of alcohol or other drugs, because those kinds of content have nothing to do with students' safety. "The University appears to be trying to keep out certain types of content under the guise of safety," Grossman said. He also said the policy's restric- tions on when publications can distribute would pose serious problems for the Daily, which begins publishing on the firstday of classes and also publishes a weekly magazine in the summer. Grossman said he would be reluctant to support any policythat restricts the rights of campus pub- lications to distribute. Grossman, Office of Student Publications General Manager Sam Offen and other members of the Board for Student Publications will meet with representatives from the LSA Facilities and Opera- tions Office Wednesday to discuss the policy. The University of Iowa has a similar policy which limits where student publications can be distrib- uted on campus, said Pete Recker, circulation manager for the Daily Iowan newspaper. Indiana University, on the other hand, has no policy regulating stu- dent publication distribution, said Rachel Knoble, circulation man- ager at the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. One issue brought to light with the creation of the distribution pol- icy is whether LSA buildings are public buildings that must comply with the First Amendment or are private buildings that aren't sub- ject to free speech laws. Although the University is a public institution, Kobersy said the University has the power to say that certain buildings or spaces on campus aren't public. Only if a University building or space is "clearly open" to members of the public, like the Diag, will the University deem it a public space, Kobersy said. Even then, she said, the Univer- sity has the right to impose certain "time, place and manner" regula- tions on those spaces. For example, the Diag can only be used by MSA-recognized stu- dent organizations or groups affili- ated with a University department between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., and loud speakers may not be used for events between 12 and 1p.m. But an LSA building like Haven Hall - which, on the first floor, is frequently used to display or dis- tribute student fliers, posters and publications - isn't a public build- ing because it isn't open to public all the time, Kobersy said. Hiestand disagreed, saying the University cannot designate an entire building as "public" or not. What a court will look for, he said, is if there are certain areas in a building, like a public area or stu- dent commons, that allow for stu- dent-based expressions of speech. He said he thought those areas would be considered "public," meaning the University couldn't restrict free speech in those areas. But whether a building is public or not, the creation of a policy that regulates students' free speech at all contradicts what the University stands for, Creeley said. Implementation of the policy would be "a worrisome develop- ment at a university that not only is bound by the First Amendment, but also boasts of 'an especially strong commitment to preserve and protect freedom of thought and expression' in its Fundamental Tenets of Membership in the Uni- versity Community," he said. Monday, February 4, 2008 - 7A HIP-HOP From Page1A someone come inyour house and disrespect it." Disrespect was a key element in one aspect of the summit, as summit organizers decided to create a mobile museum that included racist artifacts from the Ku Klux Klan. The muse- um - "Black History 101" - on display in the Art Room of the Union, also contained informa- tion on black athletes, entertain- ers and political figures. Museum curator Khalid el-Hakim said the decision to include both positive and nega- tive aspects of black culture was intentional. el-Hakim said he wanted to showcase all aspects of black history - "the entire black experience; not just the racist stuff," he said. For many students, Saturday night's concert, which included Kamikaze, rapper Marck Gon- zales and LSA senior Danny Brown, among others, was the highlight of the conference. The show featured politically conscious rap music with lyrics focused on socialissues like race, poverty and the war in Iraq. Students who attended said they appreciated the honest debate that took place at the summit, and others said they walked away more knowledge- able about hip-hop culture than before. In an interview, Shamako Noble, president and founder of Hip Hop Congress, said students can help themselves by learning more about hip-hop culture. He said that's what he's done with his life. 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