This article explains the slow death of free speech at the hands of speech codes enacted by overzealous administrators at various universities and colleges in the past 15 years.
My opinion here is that while in an attempt by a college to encourage free speech, it winds up limiting it. Students fear having an unpopular opinion on campus, and intimidation is rampant. Free speech you say? There's nothing free about it when you're in college.
How Free Speech Died on Campus
My opinion here is that while in an attempt by a college to encourage free speech, it winds up limiting it. Students fear having an unpopular opinion on campus, and intimidation is rampant. Free speech you say? There's nothing free about it when you're in college.
The people who believe that colleges and universities are places where we want less freedom of speech have won," Mr. Lukianoff says. "If anything, there should be even greater freedom of speech on college campuses. But now things have been turned around to give campus communities the expectation that if someone's feelings are hurt by something that is said, the university will protect that person. As soon as you allow something as vague as Big Brother protecting your feelings, anything and everything can be punished.
How Free Speech Died on Campus