4 Complete pages with Work Cited page in additionStudents will complete this assignment by writing an essay that responds to an assigned text. Students will use what they have read to support or illustrate their own position (agreement, disagreement, extension) rather than writing an essay focused on describing the work of another writer. Successful completion of this assignment will require students to (1) develop their own position, (2) express that position clearly and persuasively, and (3) demonstrate a connection—with quotation, paraphrase, or summary—between their position and that of the author(s) whose writing they are analyzing.Write an analytical response that presents your argument for confronting the problem of establishing and protecting freedom of speech on college campuses. Your essay may use personal experiences for support, but at least PART of support or elaboration in this essay must be drawn from one of the essays we have read on the subject of free speech. The essays to be used for this assignment are:“Colleges Have No Right to Limit Students’ Free Speech” from Time by Cliff Maloney, Jr. – which is attachedColleges Have No Right to Limit Students’ Free Speech
BY CLIFF MALONEY, JR.
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Maloney is the Executive Director at Young Americans for Liberty.
In grade school, I learned that debate is defined as “a discussion between people in which
they express different opinions about something.”
Such open discourse was historically encouraged on our college campuses. Universities
exemplified intellectual discussion and debate in America. No one voiced their opinions
louder than students, professors and administrators. They pushed society’s limits by
admitting women and people of color, and by encouraging diversity of thought amongst
the college community. Historically, young people flocked to universities to learn more
about the world around them, to encounter people from different backgrounds, to expand
their minds and to form their own opinions.
Unfortunately, things have changed. Recently on college campuses, our open discourse
has been threatened, particularly when discussing politics.
While the current presidential election represents polarizing wings of both the
Democratic and Republican parties, we should be able to openly debate their poli cies and
the direction in which they plan to take our country if elected. We should be able to
discuss the abuse of power within our government and the consistent violations of our
Bill of Rights. We should be able to participate in the free market of idea s. But our
students are being silenced.
University campuses are now home to a plethora of speech restrictions. From sidewalksized “free-speech zones” to the criminalization of microaggressions, America’s college
campuses look and feel a lot more like an authoritarian dictatorship than they do the
academic hubs of the modern free world. When rolling an inflated free-speech ball
around campus, students at the University of Delaware were halted by campus police for
their activities. A Young Americans for Liberty leader at Fairmont State University in
West Virginia was confronted by security when he was attempting to speak with other
students about the ideas he believes in. A man at Clemson University was barred from
praying on campus because he was outside of the free-speech zone. And a student at
Blinn College in Texas abolished her campus’ free-speech zone in a lawsuit after
administrators demanded she seek special permission to advocate for self -defense.
How have we let this happen in America, the land of the free?
It’s because of what our universities have taught a generation of Americans: If you don’t
agree with someone, are uncomfortable with an idea, or don’t find a joke funny, then
their speech must be suppressed. Especially if they don’t politically agree with you.
Instead of actually debating ideas that span topics from the conventional to the taboo, a
generation of American students don’t engage, they just get enraged. In doing so, many
students believe that they have a right to literally shut other people up. This is not only a
threat to the First Amendment, but also to American democracy.
In their manifestation, safe spaces and free-speech zones at public universities enable
prejudice against unfavorable ideologies. Guised as progressive measures to ensure
inclusion, these often unconstitutional policies exclude new and competing ideas, and are
antithetical to a free academia. In excluding different ideologies, supposedly progressive
campus speech codes do one thing: prevent the progression of ideas. Restrictive campus
speech codes are, in fact, regressive.
With over 750 chapters nationwide at Young Americans for Liberty, we are fighting
against public universities that stifle free speech. We’ve launched the national Fight for
Free Speech campaign to reform unconstitutional speech codes and abolish these so called free-speech zones on college campuses. By hosting events such as large free
speech balls, YAL chapters across the country are petitioning their campuses to adopt
the University of Chicago’s principles on freedom of expression—the hallmark of campus
speech policies. Our members have geared up with First Amendment organizations to
ensure that their free speech rights on campus are protected.
America is a land rooted in the ideas of a free society: the freedom to be who you are, to
speak your mind and to innovate. By silencing our students and young people, we have
started down a slippery slope. It is up to us to fight back to ensure that our First
Amendment rights remain protected—not just on college campuses, but everywhere in
America.
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