KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The University of Nebraska at Kearney has dropped its policy limiting chalk messages and drawings on its sidewalks after students and faculty criticized it as restricting free speech.

In November, the university’s Office of Business and Finance implemented the policy allowing student organizations to use chalk on sidewalks only on Mondays and Tuesdays to advertise events. It also prohibited them from sharing social or political messages using sidewalk chalk and mandated a $50 “cleaning” fee on the faculty adviser of any student organization that violated the policy.

The policy was implemented shortly after political science and anti-abortion groups held events and chalked messages on school sidewalks.

UNK spokeswoman Kelly Bartling says the UNK Chancellor’s Office, in collaboration with senior administrators, pulled the policy.