After student protests and organizing against a 2007 draft of a speech policy for UCSD, students and administrators have come to tentative agreement on a new proposal. 

In 2007, the University of California-San Diego administration proposed a speech policy for the campus that would have prohibited all protests without prior university approval, banned political speech by university employees while on campus and assigned minders to student demonstrations.  The proposal was panned and protested by student organizations and the ACLU for being so restrictive that it was likely unconstitutional. 

Now two years later, students and administrators have come to tentative agreement on a new policy that allows students and employees to assemble, gather and speak anywhere on campus as long as they do not cause a sustained disruption and allows amplified sound from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.in certain zones across campus. It also includes a volume limit of 90 decibels for amplified sound and permission to use chalk as a means of expression on university property.
 
Though students are happier with the new policy, many still have objections to both the current draft and to last year’s “non-affiliates” policy that bans speech activity on campus from the public without prior permission.  Graduate Student Association Representative for the Speech and Advocacy Committee Benjamin Balthaser expressed the students' position in an editorial for student paper The Guardian.  He noted that most student social movements require the help of those outside the university community. “With this privatized public, the university creates a troubling precedent in which only those who pay have access to public institutions.”

More from The Guardian at the University of California San Diego on the new policy
More from The Guardian at the University of California San Diego about students continued objections (note, this is an editorial piece from student representatives)