Students should share in the formulation of standards of student conduct. Every aspect of the educational process should promote the free expression of ideas. The right of express extends to matters of institutional administration and policy. Students have the right to publish written material, and to distribute it without prior approval. Distribution should not disrupt or unreasonably burden the operations of the institution.
Students have the right to a well-defined process of academic evaluation.
The institution and its teachers should assure that academic evaluations are not prejudiced or capricious and such as may deter students from expressing views contrary to those of the person making the evaluation. Students should be protected from public disclosure of views or beliefs which may have been tentatively expressed in academic discourse. Students are responsible for respecting the equal right of all their members of the academic community. For student journalists editing an institutionally supported publication, this responsibility extends to an obligation to provide reasonable opportunity for the expression of views by fellow students differing for editorial policy. Students are also responsible for respecting the personal rights of other students and of teachers and administrators by avoiding the utterance of willful or malicious defamatory statements or other incivilities so grave as to impair the ability of students or educators to perform their duties effectively.