Identity of Speakers
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Amelia Roskin-Frazee
Student
OtherGraduate student at UCI
Resources
Additional Information
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Incident Nature:
Other
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Incident Political Orientation:
Not Clear -
Incident Responses:
Student sanctioned
University administration invoked formal speech code in response
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Incident Status:
No litigation
- Was Speech Code incident
Summary
In April 2025, UC Irvine’s housing administrators ordered graduate student Amelia Roskin-Frazee to remove a doormat reading “No Warrant. No Entry,” citing a campus policy that prohibits doormats or signs with words or images facing outward. When she refused, the university initiated disciplinary actions against her for violating housing rules. Similar complaints and disciplinary threats were reportedly made against other students displaying expressive doormats.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) condemned the university’s actions as viewpoint discrimination, noting that the policy was enforced inconsistently—allowing some non-political decorations but targeting political or expressive messages. FIRE argued that this selective enforcement violated students’ First Amendment rights and urged UC Irvine to rescind the disciplinary measures and amend the policy.
By June 2025, after FIRE’s intervention, UC Irvine dropped all disciplinary charges related to the doormat issue. However, the university declined to revise the underlying policy, leaving the door open for future enforcement.
