Again, I say that a private university can do whatever it likes as long as it is truly private. I know of only one college, Hillsdale College, that openly refuses all federal assistance for the philosophical reason that it doesn't want to be responsible to federal officials for what it does, and even then it was or is in a controversy, the outcome of which I don't know, over whether direct federal scholarship aid to its students constitute assistance to the university itself and subject it to federal regulation. The federal regulators, being frustrated at not being able to impose their wills on Hillsdale, were trying to make that claim.
But if there is such a thing as a truly private university which has not obligated it to various federal regulations through its acceptance of federal grants and other aid, then as far as I know it would have no legal obligation to allow any group to do anything at all. It could provide or deny space to the KKK, PETA, the Shriners, the Kiwanis, the Pope, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, or anybody else they wanted to.
Whether they have an educational obligation to make sure that all voices can be heard on the campus is a whole different issue. But I don't think you were asking that. |
