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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
... I am simply saying Berkeley should have said no right off the bat when he/student groups asked for him to speak there. It's completely reasonable for the administration to have standards when it comes to speakers...
This isn't the case in California.
Here, instead of in-state tuition, we have student fees. These fees are voted on by the student body and collected by the Associated Students (AS, the student governments). The ASs are mandated legal entities separate from the college administrations. Student fees are allocated by the ASs for extra curricular activities (like school clubs), and extra curricular infrastructure (like the UCB Student Union building where I gather the book selling event was to be held). The ASs, being government under the 1stA, and under California's more expansive speech rights, cannot legally pick-n-choose by speech content what speakers their sponsored clubs invite. It's also not the UC admins call at all.
Cliffs: the Cal Berkeley AS Young Republicans Club most certainly can invite neo-fascists to sell their books on campus.