1. Student Unions and Freedom of Expression on Campus “University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”- Henry Kissinger

2. Representation Regulation

3. LESSON #1 Where there is consent, back off. A.K.A.: The University of Ottawa rule

4. LESSON #2 Policy should be actionable and limited A.K.A. the Memorial University of Newfoundland, York University, Canadian Federation of Students Lesson

5. LESSON #3 SOMETIMES IT IS BOTH NECESSARY AND DESIRABLE TO WADE INTO THE GREY AREAS OF REGULATING FREEDOM OF SPEECH A.K.A. University of Calgary, UBC-Vancouver lesson Necessary- To support an environment of teaching and learning Desirable- To encourage responsible and civil debate and To preserve the conditions that allow debate to continue in the future

6. SUMMARY 1.Where there is consent, back off. 1.Keep your policy actionable and limited to your mandate 1.Sometimes you will have to regulate, and sometimes you should intervene  Interventions of time/place/manner