Board of Regents, the University of Wisconsin faced a similar challenge to its system-wide policy on racist and discriminatory conduct… which involved either vile, profane, and offensive name-calling or derisive comments based on the listener’s race or sex. The court declared the policy overbroad and void for vagueness; it also rebuffed the university’s arguments for the policy under the fighting words doctrine and Title VII.5” …show more content…
“Exploration, deliberation, and debate may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought ... to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed,” the Regents added. “It is for the members of the university community, not for the institution itself, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress exploration of ideas or expression of speech but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas...they oppose.”