[(0\tK STOW Bn Matt Helms, The State Sews, Mic higan State L1. The Supreme Court once again has stood strong behind the First Amendment What will it mean to campus speech codes? ometimes Doug S» heidemantel feels drletiselexs I If lights lulled mosds — die i old, urn aring vote r lh.it veils "faggot" through the phone lines in Ins Mulligan Stale t tesideiue lull loom, the deiogaloiv scrawl in black market at loss Ins door. And he lights the tear that lories him to question the intolerance behind the vm ailed t nines that make him a mi tint ol Isolds and expressions, "It's like I should Ik- beyond this lear,” S< heidenuniel viss "But I'm not, and it's stnking .” S< heidenuntel i alls hnnsell a mi tun l util this sumniei. so did the |listu e system But a june Supieme ( omt iiiling dtsiiiantlilig a hate s(kci h otdinani e in nearhi Minnesota is Ion mg i ollegex and universities nationwide to lethmk then hate spree h |m>Iu it-s, a move that plai es these tanipuses al the forefront ol the battle. "In developing rai ial harassment provisions that target s|K-ei h. the campuses have been al the tutting edge.” sas-s Maik (> Yudoi, dean of the lass v liool at the l'. of I exas, Austin "All these i .imposes are laird svitli some chokes — they i an aliohsh (lute sjk-ci h codes) 01 seme mote general ones. I nless sou have a really general provision, it renders all of them on puhlu i .imposes unconstitutional.” Bui without hate speech codes, students like S< heidenuntel now vis lhe\ have even less ammunition to light the hatred V heidenuntel remembers seeing that word — lag — ai loss lusdoorway I fe rememlK-is wondering whs And feeling align And feeling v .tied “I don't think that a lot ol times people realize the impact ol what dies 'it vising.” lie viss Bui Philip Suggs, a graduate student at Howard l . viss the ignoi .iuie Isrhind hate speei hdoes not |ustils curbing it. "Most ol these (H-ople who commit rat e-hate crimes are doing snout ol frustration,” Suggs viss "li tells me dies are not on lopol then game Bui the ( ainxt tuition viss jK-ople luse a right to vis that, even in ignorance.” Jiisiu e Antonin S< alia, in writing the opinion lot the < ourt. sa\s the government walks a line line in preserv ing tree s[k<-c h In the St Paul, Minn., tase, an ordinance harming displays ol rai ial bus, the goveinment went Iik> I.ii , the court ruled I hus the tilling eflec tisels destrosed the ordiiutice and i ast doubt on the vahdits of state lasss that punish jk-ipetratotsol < tunes mote srveieh ■I then aits appear rat ulls motisateii. But pei haps more dramatic alls, hate sjseei h c iwles at hundreds ol i .imposes have Ik-c ii put on hold, .0 administrators ss.ut anxiousls to see it then (Kiln ies must Ik- revised. “When it comes to college s(k-c-c h c ikIcs, n nulls is a death knell, viss Paul Denenleld. legal director of Michigan’s American Civil l.dx-riies t'nion Ill i hr wake i >1 i hr (In ink in, < ollegrs .mci universitiesat loss thr country .in- st t ambling lo redefine thru hair spcec h codes on thr hit’ll court s terms 1 hr l tif Mu lug,111 is onr ol thr (list m hi x>|s n > rcintrrpirt its c (airs. In June, Michigan abandoned its so-called hair sprrt h polic v, which banned sjk-ch h “whrn a student inlrntlonalh uses rat lal, ethnocentric or sexual inset lives, epithets, slurs or utterance dim llv to atlat k 01 injure another mtlivitlual rather than rxpirssor discuss an idea, ideology ol philosophy " Msa lade, l ol Michigan grnri at counsel. sa\s am at lion taken against students under the I think am kind ol rules about non at adeniir condut t will not Ik- ret rived well," she says “We all leal the possibility that they would tome at let us lor having different ideas," fox savs hale spreeh codes in general ale useless to the extent that they curb speech. “It's realh society that tear lies people to attack others in speech," savs Fox, a senior in anthiojyology. “Having a < ode won’t get rid of it." Besides, college campuses t an survive without sjieet h codes. says John ( -also, a gi.ulu.ite student in puhlit adininrstration and law at New Yoik l N\T does not have a condut t code with sjh-c ilii restrii live tategorres ol hate s|H-er h ( -ilvo savs the univeisity has no need for one. “I suppose we've had a really long history ol tolerance on campus," he saw "Other v bools need to move in that direction. It'sgoing to In-1rally haul at first, hut most will lie able to come upwith polic ies." And many are trying. At l r, Austin, administrators have sent then hate speech |>olicv to general counsel lor review Sharon |usti1kv at this time. Patricia llodulik senioi legal counsel lot the Wisconsin system, savs the (ioluy will iemail) m place lot now. although the Wiseonsin Hoard ol Regents is si heduled to review it in Septemliet But that leaves die Wisconsin (ode in ilux until then, and senior Mary Whitt say s the delay is unsettling for students “If something were to hap|>en. what would the administration do. how would they handle it?" she vivs “They (an’t irally do nine h with the code Continued on Page