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79 Ind. L.J. 267 (2004)
Assessing Constitutional Challenges to University Free Speech Zones under Public Forum Doctrine

handle is hein.journals/indana79 and id is 277 raw text is: Assessing Constitutional Challenges to University Free Speech Zones Under Public Forum Doctrine THOMAS J. DAVIS TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 267 I. DEFINING THE FRAMEWORK ............................................................................... 270 A . Public Forum D octrine .............................................................................. 270 B. The Archetype Case: Bayless v. Martine ................................................... 272 II. THE UNIVERSITY AS A PUBLIC FORUM .............................................................. 274 A. Is the Public University a Public Forum? .................................................. 274 B. The Time, Place, or M anner Test ............................................................... 276 C . C ases .......................................................................................................... 278 1. C ontent-N eutrality ............................................................................... 278 2. N arrow T ailoring ................................................................................. 281 3. A dequate A lternatives ......................................................................... 285 III. THE UNIVERSITY AS A NONPUBLIC FORUM ...................................................... 289 A. Can the University be Considered a Nonpublic Forum? ........................... 289 B. A Guidepost for the Speech Zone Challenge Under Nonpublic Forum Doctrine?: Auburn Alliance for Peace & Justice v. Martin ........................... 289 IV . NON-LEGAL ALTERNATIVES? .......................................................................... 294 C ON CLU SION .......................................................................................................... 297 INTRODUCTION In September 2000, a student at New Mexico State University was arrested after disobeying a police officer's request to stop leafleting outside the student union because it was not an open forum area. I At the University of Mississippi in the same year, a student was arrested for protesting the student newspaper outside the school's only designated speech area.2 In November 2001, police ejected a West Virginia University student from a Disney on-campus recruiting seminar because the student had previously handed out anti-Disney flyers outside of the designated zone.3 And in 2002, twelve Florida State University students were * J.D. Candidate, 2004, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington; A.B., 1998, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I would like to thank Professor Susan Williams for her early suggestions and comments, Jennifer Shea and the Indiana Law Journal Board of Editors for helpful feedback, and Katie Marie McWhorter for selflessly proofreading an early draft of this Note. Finally, I thank my father, Thomas F. Davis, for teaching me how to write. 1. See Randal C. Archibold, Boxing in Free Speech, N.Y. TIMEs, Apr. 8, 2001, § 4A (Education Life Supplement), at 23. The student, an opponent of the university's policy of maintaining free speech zones, was passing out leaflets to promote his free underground newspaper. Id. The charges were later dropped, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued on behalf of the student. Id. The suit was settled later that year, resulting in the abolishment of the free speech zones as well as a new policy clarifying free speech rights. Id. 2. See Mary M. Kershaw, Free Speech Has Its Place-or Several-on USA's Campuses, USA TODAY, May 13, 2002, at 6D. 3. See Michael A. Fuoco, Students Protest WVU Free Speech Zones, Prrr. POST- GAZETrE, Feb. 13, 2002, at A-2.

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