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Speech Codes

            Professor James of the Science Department has been actively against the lawsuit filed against Shippensburg University. She has worked for Shippensburg for about 13 years and has never thought there was a problem with the Speech codes at Shippensburg. .
             James says: "The lawsuit is ridiculous, Shippensburg just updated their Code of conduct a year prior to the suit, but because most of the students don't know, they feel they still have the right to sue using the old code of conduct as their basis." .
             On April 22, 2003 Walter Bair, Jennifer Coyle [not her real name] and the civil liberties group FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) filed suit against Shippensburg University saying that Shippensburg's policies on free speech are unconstitutional. .
             When a few students displayed flags and banners on doors and hallways depicting a massage against Osama bin Laden and American military efforts in Afghanistan they were asked to remove them. Bair testified that the resident director told him to remove .
             them stating they were offensive to others and in violation of the University's code of .
             conduct. Bair and other students complied with the orders to remove the banners because they feared punishment if they did not. .
             In another incident anti-war demonstrators were asked to move to a designated area. James says that the demonstrators were "in the way of students going to class and a few were harassing people. They were asked to move about 50 yards away so they were between the science building and the CUB [Cumberland Union Building]. Some demonstrators refused so campus security had to forcibly remove them" .
             FIRE is currently part of a nationwide effort to challenge and change speech policies at colleges and universities. FIRE states that although many students respect disagreement and differences that university policies encourage students to bring up charges against those who may offend others.


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1. speech codes

... that it cares is to appear to suppress racist, sexist, homophobic speech (Hentoff 353). To show that speech codes deprive ones freedom of speech it is necessary to introduce the views of supporters for campus speech codes and to show that speech codes are not the answer to many problems. The supporters of speech codes suggest that if racism is punished then people will learn that racism ... " The language on campus could become as pure as country water, but racist attitudes would still fester" (168). The supporters of speech codes say that speech codes are especially important in prote...

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2. Why College Speech Codes Should Not Be Used

... be right, the statement's veracity must be false. Of course the arete, or means by which the purpose would be fulfilled, is implementing speech codes on campus. Second, the telos of the university clearly contradicts its arete of using speech codes on campus. If the goals of many colleges is to provide its students with an environment that encourages people to embrace new ideas ... argument over opinions and thoughts, which are derived from each individual's own set of criteria used to determine the veracity of the moral argument. Some! people interpret college speech codes as guideline...

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3. Should Speech Codes Be Allowed On College Campuses?

... college campuses are becoming implemented more and more. This raises the question, is this a good thing? It is the opinion of many that speech codes on college campuses should be abolished because they violate the first amendment of the constitution, are extremely vague and ambiguous and they diminish the beliefs, ideals and thoughts of the ... ideas around them. Of course, some of those ideas will be rather undesirable, but hearing them and being familiar with them is really the only way to combat them. Implementing speech codes is trying to sugar coat the world and make it seem like ...

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4. Free speech

... . Moreover, new policies need not be drafted because laws already exist to protect individuals against illegal actions. It is important to distinguish between words and action. Rather than implement rigid speech codes as a solution, universities should stress personal responsibility of those who speak and act. While words may incite people to action, the Constitution and the laws of the United States direct ... make such comments should be preserved. Furthermore, one of the major goals of a modern-day university is to form the ideal of the classical academy and community. The adoption of...

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5. Hate Speech

... therefore must not be written. Since the main principle of the First Amendment applies directly to public institutions, it has been hard for many universities to pass speech codes and still remain constitutional. Doug Hann, a football player at Brown University, was expelled for violating the university's code of conduct. Hann had a previous incident where he had been drinking and ... entitled "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?- author Nat Hentoff discusses the reasoning for his expulsion and also explores the controversy between free speech and hate speech. I feel that this studen...

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6. The Rise Of Hate Speech On Campuses

... violent or racist remarks. Like Paul McMasters says, "[s]peech code advocates fail to see the irony and contradictions in their own positions. They would entrust, for example, fair enforcement of speech codes to the very individuals and institutions they have labeled racist, sexist, and other-ist- (McMasters, 173). And though the intentions behind such beliefs are made in good faith, it is ... pride in one's heritage- (Delgado and Yun, 163). This is particularly true at universities, whose mission is to make possible learning through open debate and study, and to enlighten. Speech codes ...

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7. Regulation speech on campus

... to bring such topics into discussion and educating students in tolerance and history. This is much more effective than imposing strict speech codes. Imposing rules and regulations on racist speech will only deny their existence and bring about ignorance in us all. In the past there have been two important court ... time. If colleges can begin to educate its students of intolerance, then they will become tolerant, or more enlightened if they are already so. Speech codes are merely a quick fix to the overall problem: racism and intolerance. With great freedom, comes great responsibility. ...

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8. Hate Speech on College Campuses

... could educate the opposing in facts and ideas they may have not known. There is a chance that the education could change their opinion. Many universities have enforced hate speech codes that allow the freedom of speech but protect the student's rights to participate fully in campus life without being discriminated against. Let's define a students right to participate fully in campus life without being ... could obviously have the potential to be considered fighting words or actually start a fight and the white student would be punished for racial harassment. Among this, there are other ...

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9. regulating hate speech on camp

... Many universities, under pressure to respond to the concerns of those who are the objects of hate, have adopted codes or policies prohibiting speech that offends any group based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. The power of a university to ... and is repeated or done in conjunction with illegal conduct" (pp.170-171). Shiell writes that universities should design policies based on actions, not speech. Haiman agrees stating "that harms--or injuries, if one prefers--that are psychological and subjective in nature are different from objectively verifiable physical ...

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