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Letter to the Editor: Alumnus Says Iowa State University ā€˜Will Loseā€™ Case

As Torch readers are aware, one of the initial lawsuits in ¹ū¶³“«Ć½app¹Ł·½ā€™s Litigation Project, Gerlich v. Leach, involves a challenge to Iowa State Universityā€™s unconstitutional trademark policy that ISU administrators have used to silence a student group advocating for the legalization of marijuana. Yesterday, the published , an ISU alumnus. ISUā€™s associate general counsel didnā€™t listen to us when we wrote him to say that ISUā€™s policies were unconstitutional. Maybe the administration will listen to Dr. Currie.

By Kenneth Currie BS, Political Science, 1969

As an alumnus of Iowa State, I am gratified to learn that Iowa State's speech code is being challenged by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. However, I was distressed to learn that ISU had such a code in the first place. As the foundation has repeatedly pointed out, such codes consistently have been ruled unconstitutional by the federal courts. The college will lose this one ā€” it doesn't stand a chance. It needs to throw in the towel now rather than costing Iowa taxpayers and donors to the university the cost of a court fight. Until Iowa State does repeal its speech code, it need not bother this graduate with appeals for money.

Kenneth M. Currie, PhD

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