A Blog For All - Comments - Keep it civil
I don't see the problem with modest limits on student's speech. We have long accepted other modest limits on student's/minor's rights (free assembly, trial by peers, etc) and these are perfectly reasonable given society's greater interest in having the student's become well-rounded adults able to make mature decisions.
The concern is that universities will take this one step further and seek to impose similarly stringent codes of conduct on their campuses, restricting the rights of adults (age 18+) to engage in free speech.
Well, as most universities are private institutions and college itself is in effect a voluntary association of adults (as opposed to the state-enforced mandatory attendance through high school) they already can, can't they? And in fact they do, as evidenced by all the 'hate-speech' regulations that abound on campuses.
All that is true, but they also receive federal funds, whether through direct aid or grants. You also have state universities and the fact remains that they are restricting speech, which I find abhorrent.
They might cover their speech codes under the guise of promoting diversity of opinions, but they are often used to muzzle contrary opinions.
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