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religious activities on campus  

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  • Student expressive rights in higher education reflect the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Community School District (1969). In Tinker, the justices declared, in response to public school students wearing black arm bands to express their opposition to the Vietnam war, that “neither students [nor] teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate” (p. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education; Religious Activities on Campus]

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