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The Dartmouth
July 4, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Scott Meacham
The Setonian
Opinion

Con Law 101

To the Editor: Why would Trustee Rodgers state that "Dartmouth currently has imbedded in its own website a speech code that is clearly illegal under the First Amendment" when he admits in the same column that the First Amendment does not apply directly to a private college ("Encouraged But Not Convinced," March 7)? Congress is forbidden from doing dozens of things that a private corporation is not, so why the obsession with trying to apply this particular ban to Dartmouth?

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