Nothing could be further from the truth. In short, a person may say what he likes, but the Constitution does not require others to pay for it. The courts have also recognized that free speech is meaningless without the corresponding freedom not to speak.
Truth can stand for itself.
Without student fees, groups like the CU Women's Resource Center are still free to say what they like and maintain libraries where one can pick up the latest copies of Bitch , Weird Sisters, and Ms. , but search in vain for The Women's Quarterly . The only difference, and it is an important one, is that they are now on an equal footing with everyone else in society. They can no longer use government power to extract money from those who disagree with their views. Those who want to continue using student fees as their own private piggybanks also make much of the supposedly democratic nature of the levies. Because students vote for student government, the argument goes, those who object can work through the democratic process.