Moravian College is a place where expressive activity
is central to the intellectual development and self-definition of students,
staff and faculty. Protest and demonstrations are often a part of the
expression of disparate ideas and beliefs. Past experience leads us
to believe that campus activities work better when there are guidelines
to assure that demonstrators and the educational environment can exist
side by side. Consequently the following guidelines have been developed.
1. Access to Buildings and Offices - Participants may
enter campus buildings for the purpose of conducting orderly and peaceful
demonstrations. Exterior doorways and interior doorways that open onto
the office of administrative officials, faculty, or staff or onto any
other essential facility of the building may not be blocked. Participants
may stand or sit in the hallways, but may not block the hallways or
stairs. Participants may not enter or occupy any room or office without
the permission of the faculty member or administrative official in
charge of that office.
2. Noise Level - Noise in the building should not be
so loud as to prevent office workers from carrying on their normal
business or so loud as to interfere with classes that meet in the building.
3. Placards - Placards used by demonstrators inside or
outside the building may be made of poster board or of other similar
material, but not out of material of a hard substance. Placards may
be carried or worn on the person, but not tacked, or nailed to trees
or lampposts or to the walls and windows of the building. Placards
may be affixed by tape or string to these structures and remain in
place for the duration of the demonstration so long as they do not
damage the structures to which they are affixed.
4. General Conduct - Students should abide by the conduct
regulations of the Student Code of Conduct. Participants who are not
affiliated with the College should conduct themselves as guests and
may be asked to leave the campus if their conduct is, in the judgement
of College officials, disruptive or otherwise unsatisfactory.
5. Hours - Participants in the demonstration may be present
in the buildings only during normal hours of operations (I.e., when
the buildings are open).
6. Amplifying Equipment - No loudspeaker or other amplifying
equipment is permitted inside or outside the building. Participants
may use hand held megaphones outside the building, but these may not
be connected to any type electrical amplifying device. Electrical amplifying
devices may be confiscated. Any exceptions should be cleared through
the Office of Student Services.
