Freedom of Speech
If freedom of speech is the first amendment of the constitution, then why can’t students use this amendment at universities across this great country? Freedom of speech is important to college campuses because the purpose of college is to break past the boundaries of where education stands today. It’s a place where students achieve higher education and where students can find other students with the common interests to form groups and recruit more students into those groups.
At the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, a student named Chris Morbitzer and his chapter of Young Americans for Liberty were handing out flyers, when a campus authority told them that if they were seen outside of the free speech zone (which they didn't even know existed), campus security would be called and the students would be arrested for violating the perimeters of the free speech zone. This free speech zone only covers a mere 0.1% of the entire campus, which is less than 6000 square feet and the freedom of …show more content…
After all it is the first amendment. It wouldn’t have been the first amendment if the founding fathers of this great nation didn't think it was important. It was the first thing to come to mind when they thought about what this country in the making should be all about. Education was probably another important factor in making the United States of America and education and freedom of speech go hand in hand. It lets people question facts and push boundaries of what has already been discovered. If it wasn’t for freedom of speech, this nation would be like Oceania in George Orwell’s book 1984. In the book there is a group of people in charge of rewriting history to make Oceania seem like the best country to ever exist. Oceania is a place of lies, deceit, and sadness. People there can’t have any expression of feeling or their own opinions. Just to think that our great nation could’ve been like that is
If freedom of speech is the first amendment of the constitution, then why can’t students use this amendment at universities across this great country? Freedom of speech is important to college campuses because the purpose of college is to break past the boundaries of where education stands today. It’s a place where students achieve higher education and where students can find other students with the common interests to form groups and recruit more students into those groups.
At the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, a student named Chris Morbitzer and his chapter of Young Americans for Liberty were handing out flyers, when a campus authority told them that if they were seen outside of the free speech zone (which they didn't even know existed), campus security would be called and the students would be arrested for violating the perimeters of the free speech zone. This free speech zone only covers a mere 0.1% of the entire campus, which is less than 6000 square feet and the freedom of …show more content…
After all it is the first amendment. It wouldn’t have been the first amendment if the founding fathers of this great nation didn't think it was important. It was the first thing to come to mind when they thought about what this country in the making should be all about. Education was probably another important factor in making the United States of America and education and freedom of speech go hand in hand. It lets people question facts and push boundaries of what has already been discovered. If it wasn’t for freedom of speech, this nation would be like Oceania in George Orwell’s book 1984. In the book there is a group of people in charge of rewriting history to make Oceania seem like the best country to ever exist. Oceania is a place of lies, deceit, and sadness. People there can’t have any expression of feeling or their own opinions. Just to think that our great nation could’ve been like that is