Gun free UT signs face removal after University enforces signage policy
The University has requested that faculty take down all outward facing signs from office windows by Sept. 7, including signs affiliated with Gun Free UT.
"Consistent with U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the University has policies that use a content-neutral approach based on ‘time, place and manner’ to regulate speech on campus, including the placement of signs,” UT spokesman J.B. Bird said in an email. “The University’s rules do not allow signs on windows that face externally to campus.”
Gun Free UT was organized to bring attention to Senate Bill 11, Texas’ campus carry law, which went into effect in August 2016 and allows licensed handgun owners to carry concealed weapons into public university facilities. The organization provides downloadable signs on its website that have been hung in faculty windows on campus.
Word began to spread among faculty last month that signs featuring the name of the organization, along with any other outward facing signs, needed to be removed, history professor Joan Neuberger said.
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The University is enforcing its signage policy, telling professors who have signs facing outward toward campus to remove them from their office windows. This mainly applies to offices in Garrison Hall, the William C. Hogg Building and Dorothy L. Gebauer Building, where “Gun Free UT” signs are among the most prominent on campus.
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