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1. Classrooms aren't private student association settings (normally).

2. Any offices rented by a student association or other organization by law are considered private. The standing of the university as a leasing organization doesn't change because of it being a university. The same laws apply to it with regard to commercial and residential rentals as any other landlord. Which means the following: if you don't want someone in your office you don't have to let them in. That includes visitors to the university, students, and police officers without a warrant just to name three off the top of my head.

3. Nothing I've said so far applies to professors other than their right to issue content warnings or accurate descriptions for the courses in question. Trust me, I've always approved of accurate course descriptions because the biggest failure of inaccurate ones is the defined list of required books to purchase at the official university book store (which has only so much time and money to get the books in the first place). If a professor can't be bothered to fill in the course description and required reading materials in advance then maybe that professor should get out of the teaching business? Wild idea I know! Which includes trigger warnings on issues which are still even in the public are considered controversial or shocking topics. If that upsets you then I guess you better tell the MPAA and other organizations to stop "censoring" themselves.



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