This is Where We Draw the Line

The DPI Hits the UL

This project took place in the 5 elevators in Davis Library. It consisted of 5 quotes (one in each elevator) printed backwards and hung facing a mirror on the opposite side of the elevator. The mirrors, which in turn reflected the quotes right-reading above the viewer's own reflection, had call numbers printed on them that correspond to books in the library collection about students' rights to free speech on college campuses.

The following five quotes were used:

“In the wake of the arrests of five protesters in the South Building, the University is re-examining the policies surrounding the ability of students to protest on campus. There is no policy that specifically defines the role of the University in protests or demonstrations. As long as the protest does not violate any law or policy already in place, the protest is free to take place. A University policy on protests and demonstrations would inherently infringe upon the freedoms and rights every person is entitled to.”

-The Daily Tar Heel, September 29, 2008.

“General Principle: Subject to restrictions on the use of University facilities prescribed elsewhere in this policy, the University permits assemblies and gatherings of University-sponsored, University-affiliated and nonaffiliated groups without prior approval in the Y-Court and the Carolina Union ‘Pit.’

“General Principle: Subject to restrictions on the use of University facilities prescribed elsewhere in this policy, the University permits assemblies and gatherings of University-sponsored, University-affiliated and nonaffiliated groups without prior approval on the Historic Quads.”

-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Policy on the Use of University Facilities for Noncommercial and Commercial Purposes

“Only officially recognized Student Organizations may reserve the Pit… NO ‘sharing’ of the Pit is allowed.”

- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office of Events Management PIT POLICY.

“We want to come up with a way for people to express themselves, for them to know we take their expressions seriously.”

-Chancellor Holden Thorp on potential policy to regulate student protest

“Students have the same rights of privacy and expression as other citizens and… surrender none of these rights by becoming members of the University community.”

-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Instrument of Student Judicial Governance