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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
I'm not a lawyer or law student or anything close, so maybe someone can help me out with this. Where does the idea that public universities cannot regulate their students' on-campus actions come from?
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It's not so much "regulating" students' conduct. It's that public universities are are agencies of (usually) state government, and therefore the prohibitions of the Bill of Rights -- such as not inhibiting free speech, free assembly or free exercise of religion -- apply to them. Public universities can regulate conduct up to a point, but there is a constitutional line they cannot cross. Private universities don't have to worry about that constitutional line. (They may have to worry about receiving federal funds, though.)