Investigations by various University offices—including but not limited to EOAA [Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action] and Human Resources—sometimes implicate free speech values. Yet despite the potential threat to free speech posed by such investigations, it is not clear that University investigatory offices see it as their duty to consider the effect of their investigations on the climate for free speech. They do not necessarily internalize the value of free speech at a public university. Their focus is on cleansing public discussion so that it is inoffensive. Otherwise, they fear, the University will be unwelcoming to some in the community. The effect is to create an imbalance by which protected speech is subordinated to other values. But speech may not be curtailed simply because it is offensive. And it is the duty of every member of the University community—including those with investigatory power—to respect and protect speech.