Whaddayaknow, my alma mater is a red light zone for free speech. Strangely, of the 5 Claremont colleges, only four are listed (no Pitzer), and only Mudd gets a red light. Here are their reports on all the colleges in California.
This merely goes to show that reading the letter of the law and ignoring the practice of its enforcement is stupid.
Read the “MORE…” for an example which rebuts this silly characterization.
For example, at the end of Fall semester, we’d always spell out “FUCK” in Christmas lights on one of the dorm walls. People would annotate the FUCK wall with whatever they wanted — usually 8 1/2 by 11″ sheets of paper with class numbers, profs’ names, jokes (”ME!!! … please”), whatever. This seems like a direct violation of the stated obscenity policy. Sure, there were complaints, but people are still doing it (or they were last Christmas).
I invite you to just try that at most other college campuses in North America today. Berkeley, for example. Or Scripps.
And don’t get me started on the other uses for Christmas lights (scroll down about 2/3 of the way)