A university has ended its investigation into a brash banner, characterized by critics as sexual harassment, hung outside a fraternity building at Wichita State fraternity – for all of five minutes one day – because officials have admitted the speech was covered by the First Amendment.

The banner, which faced a neighboring sorority recruitment event, said “New Members Free House Tours!”

The school had launched a Title IX investigation into the incident after a student reported the banner, claiming it caused “uncomfortable feelings.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education wrote a letter to the school explaining that the speech was constitutionally protected.

A short time later, the school “affirmed the expression was protected by the First Amendment and dropped its investigation.” (Read more from “Frat Banner Probed for Causing ‘Uncomfortable Feelings'” HERE)

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