I chose this article because it shows how arrogant the students can be based on the survey. The student’s feelings against “hate speech” gets in the way, which leads them to make poor decisions. Why should hard core situations be prevented from being discussed on college campuses? The first amendment is at issue because the students believes that the first amendment will protect them under every circumstance. The code of conduct is placed in every education environment because it shows that some rights may be limited.…
The wrongful prosecution of “a white student guilty of racial harassment for reading a book titled Notre Dame vs. the Klan” (LG 5) should raise an alarm that we punish those who education themselves to recognize and prevent the reoccurrence of heinous historical acts. Society has initiated a movement that “sought to restrict speech (specifically hate speech aimed at marginalized groups), but it also challenged the literary, philosophical, and historical canon, seeking to widen it by including more-diverse perspectives” (LG 2). Limiting speech of any form is a violation of freedom of speech. Speech should be moderated to respect individual values, not to avoid uncomfortable topics. The purpose in higher education is to enlighten students and provide knowledge that creates understanding and tolerance of…
Free speech has become a big deal in this country. Riot squads are not allowed to say certain things in basketball and football games. In school, students are being kept away from saying things that may disturbing or offensive. Ideas are being censored too because they can be “disturbing” or offensive. Students should not be censored because of their ideas or statements.…
Having Free Speech is the basic right that Americans have, it is the ability to speaks one’s mind and ideas. Theres are many benefits to having the ability to project ideas without censorship. Caleb Yong author of “Does Freedom of Speech Include Hate Speech?” argues that the liberal justice has a special protection against the restriction of speech and expression, he calls it “Free Speech Principle” where it includes its “sensitivity to the distinction between coverage and protection (Yong)” that the speech should be monitored. Hate speech is too broad to single out the negative effect that it can have in any group. The main concept of this article includes the four categories that hate speech can be set in.…
1. What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? Alien act is the act of not being able to import or accept those who are not from the nation as it can be dangerous and Sedition Acts is that if anyone was to write, say or print anything man-made lie against anyone in high office government wise to make them look bad. 2.…
Many colleges have been known to outright use Free Speech Zones to shut down certain viewpoints that students or registered school organizations may hold; others use them as a way to monitor outside groups and speakers that come to universities and mention unpopular topics, meanwhile students who attend the college are still allowed to organize as they please outside of free speech zones; and then there are those colleges that have been quite lenient on the issue of free speech regardless of the speech coming from either a student or an outside source. With the wide range of opinion on the issue of free speech, it is clear some schools will be hit harder than…
Colleges always face a lot of scrutiny when it comes to how they are run. In recent years, the First Amendment has come into play on campuses across the nation. Many articles have been written defending both for and against restrictions, defending the use of trigger warnings in class, and explaining what this controversy is really about. While the colleges themselves have the power to choose what they do, they must consider what experience they want to provide for their students. What is Free Speech?…
The First Amendment protects citizen’s rights to free speech. The First Amendment is “applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, restricts governmental interference with citizens’ free expression rights” (McCarthy, Cambron-McCabe, & Eckes, 2014, p. 93). However, students’ right to free speech in the educational setting can be limited if “the expression is likely to disrupt the educational process or collide with the rights of others” (McCarthy et al., 2014, p. 98). The Supreme Court applies the First Amendment in many cases regarding free speech. Through these various cases, the Supreme Court has established four legal principles to guide student expression rights in public educational facilities (McCarthy et al., 2014, p. 95).…
Many people think that we should throw the first amendment away because of hate speech. All laws should stay the same and protect all speech because the government would have to much power over what we see, the government might imprison many people that have opposing opinion than others,and if all speech were to be banned so would people's beliefs ; therefore all laws need to be kept the same. Our media would be highly censored if we were to change the laws. We would be kept in the dark about what’s truly going on.…
An appropriate free-speech policy for a diverse campus should be that students should be able to share ideas and different views that may be limited by, and only by, nondiscriminatory considerations of time and place and in a way in which things are done. This policy does not include in class conversations for it may be times where controversial…
To me both freedom of speech and academic freedom serve the same purpose and necessity, especially on a college campus. If institutions of higher learning are allowed to infringe on the expressed rights of students, faculty, and staff as a nation it is my belief that we have lost all hope in our government, and in the laws that are implemented to serve and protect us. The Bill of Rights was implemented to protect society, institutions of higher learning were also implemented to protect society, if one disregards the other it will be a systemic failure that we will all…
In the article titled, “Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought,” Jonathan Rauch concludes that hate speech should not be censored on campus. Rauch believes that students have a right to academic freedom. He believes that students will not feel free to explore or question topics that may be taboo, if they are fearful of reprimand, limiting their ability to learn about the world during a crucial time in their education. First Rauch argues that gaining knowledge is painful and Knowledge cannot be separated from pain, even the most “scientific” criticism can be painful. For example, Physicist Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide following criticism of his ideas.…
In the article, On the Repression of Free Expression (from Commencement Speech at Harvard University), Michael Bloomberg writes how great universities are places where people of all backgrounds with all beliefs come together to “study and debate their ideas – freely and openly” (103). It is not about a single individual but the whole group as one. The whole point of attending school is to bring children of all kinds together and help them learn from one another by hearing other thoughts and opinions and the reason behind that thinking. It is good to hear other thoughts and opinions without anyone holding back anything. Bloomberg states, “We cannot deny others the rights and privileges that we demand for ourselves” (104).…
The Dangers of Safe Spaces Safe spaces can destroy the basic setup of college campuses right to promote freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is something that many have fought long and hard for everyone to have. College is supposed to help everyone get accustom to how things are in the real world. Having “safe spaces” on campuses deliberately hinders freedom of speech and it helps generate a world of more close minded people. While colleges are comprised of people from all around the world, everyone’s mind is not that diverse when it comes to thinking.…
Speech that aggrievedly defames, invades privacy, causes panic, provokes retaliatory violence or incites crimes is and ought to be restricted under the Millian principle that law is to protect citizens from harm, and punish those who harm others (Feinburg 1). The circumstance of speech is of profound importance when considering the quality of protection speech receives under law. We must also note that private institutions, like Berea College, are not legally obligated to follow constitutional law in the same fashion as…