From FIRE:
The University of Louisville maintains such a repressive speech code it's hard to know where to begin. But since we have to dive in somewhere, let's start with the fact that Louisville "requires that public speech and discourse on campus shall be civil." For the sake of the legal profession, I'm hoping that Louisville's general counsel was out sick the day this crossed his or her desk, because there is just no way such a requirement could possibly be constitutional. As far as impermissible restrictions on speech at a public university go, this is a twofer: it's both vague (what counts as "civil," and who gets to define it?) and overbroad (uncivil speech is certainly protected by the Constitution).
But my favorite part (by which I mean the most hilariously unconstitutional part) of Louisville's code is their harassment section:
A person is guilty of harassment when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person, he or she:
(c) In a public place, makes an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present.
This is interesting to hear. I live in Louisville, have a few good friends that attend that university, and have yet to hear of that policy ever utilized. I inquired if they knew about this and they were surprised as I was.
Utterly disgusting and disheartening that it exists either way.
Does this mean I can not raise questions regarding intellectual capacity(ies) or capability(ies) in a room occupied by any academically elite(d) personages?