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December 4, 2006

ACLU to file lawsuit over students' signs at RIC

PROVIDENCE -- The Rhode Island branch of the ACLU is holding a news conference today to announce the filing of a lawsuit against Rhode Island College.

The ACLU says the college violated students' free speech rights when it ordered them to take down signs bearing the message ``Take Your Rosaries Off My Ovaries.''

The conflict began last year after campus police removed the signs.

A spokeswoman for the university said at the time that the school was committed to free speech but had rules about where signs are permitted.

The ACLU says its lawsuit will also challenge a new sign policy that the college adopted.

-- The Associated Press

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