R953-2-4. General Rights of Free Expression on Campus

  (1) The college upholds and promotes free expression on campus. Except as limited by regulations consistent with the law and this rule, (a) all faculty, students, and staff have the right to express views and ideas, and are free to criticize, contest, and condemn views expressed on campus and (b) neither the faculty, staff, nor students may obstruct, disrupt, suppress or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views.

  (2) The college's outdoor areas are a public forum.

  (3) The college may not prohibit:

  (a) a member of the college's community or the public from spontaneously and contemporaneously assembling in an outdoor area of the college's campus; or

  (b) a person from freely engaging in noncommercial expressive activity in an outdoor area of the college's campus if the person's conduct is lawful.