“Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent letters to administrators at twenty public colleges and universities in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania warning them to abandon their speech codes in light of the recent Third Circuit decision overturning Temple University’s unconstitutional code. All of the colleges FIRE contacted are rated as ‘red light’ schools in FIRE’s Spotlight speech codes database, meaning that they retain policies that unconstitutionally restrict student speech. ‘For decades, college and university speech codes have been overturned by court after court, and for nearly ten years FIRE has railed against those schools that brazenly continue to maintain them. In light of the DeJohn v. Temple University opinion and now FIRE’s letter, no public university in the Third Circuit can credibly argue that it did not know that campus speech codes are forbidden by the Constitution,’ said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff.” (09/30/08)