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University Policy on Picketing and Demonstrations
The University has recognized peaceful picketing and demonstrating as legal means
of expressing dissent or a point of view. Persons engaged in peaceful picketing and
demonstrating are entitled to protection under the law.
Picketing or demonstrating must not jeopardize public order or harass organized
meetings in such a manner as to deprive others of the right to assemble or deprive
speakers of the right of expression. Such activity must not interfere with the
regular classroom, laboratory, or office activity of the University.
If picketing or demonstrating is of such a nature as to violate the provisions of
G. S. 14-132. 1, enacted by the 1965 session of the General Assembly, the University
will cooperate with appropriate authorities in the enforcement of the statute.
General Statute 14-132. 1 states:
Demonstrations or Assemblies of Persons Kneeling or Lying
Down in Public Buildings Prohibited. If any person, persons,
group or assembly of persons, after being forbidden to do so
by the supervisor, keeper, custodian or person in charge of
any public building of the State or of any county or municipality
shall go or enter into such public building so owned by the State,
county or municipality or shall enter upon the lands in or near
any such public building and shall engage in sitting, kneeling,
lying down or inclining so as to obstruct the ingress or egress
of members of the public in the use of said building for normal
business affairs or who shall congregate, assemble or by groups
or formations, whether organized or unorganized, or by any
method or manner whatsoever, so as to block or interfere with
the customary, normal use of said building or the land or grounds
in, around and adjacent to said building, such person or persons
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, plea of
guilty or nolo contendere, shall be punished by a fine not to
exceed fifty dollars ($50. 00) or by imprisonment not to exceed
thirty days, or both such fine or imprisonment.
January, 1968
