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A 3 page research paper/essay that explores the use of speech codes at institutions of higher learning. Citing the example of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which abolished its code in 1999, the writer argues that speech codes inhibit the free expression of ideas. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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by their designers to eradicate "hate" speech from college campuses, examination of the reality of speech codes shows that these policy instruments frequently serve as obstacles to the free expression
of ideas and impediments to the freedom of speech that all American citizens should enjoy. Weigel (2004) describes how the colleges and universities began relinquishing the idea that they
should act in loco parentis to students who were legally adults in the 1960s and 70s. However, then he goes on to detail how that protective mindset has returned--with a
vengeance. One of the first speech codes was instituted at the University of Michigan in 1987 after a handful of anonymous fliers espousing a racist message were found on-campus (Weigel,
2004). This speech code, the first to end up in court, prohibited "any behavior, verbal or physical that stigmatizes or victimizes an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, martial status, handicap, or Vietnam-era veteran status" (Weigel, 2004, p. 40). This set off a trend toward the adoption of university speech
codes. Typical of this trend is when Annette Kolodny, a one-time member of the Berkeley Free Speech movement, became an administrator at the University of Arizonas College of Humanities. She
stiffened penalties inherent in the speech code and particularly addressed what she termed "anti-feminist intellectual harassment" (Weigel, 2004, p. 40). Kors (1999) examines the speech code instituted at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW). As with most codes, its restrictions applied not only to students, but also to professors. Kors describes the UW code as "breathtakingly vague," but
affording the panel charged with its implementation with "frightening discretion" to investigate violations (1999, p. 31). This crated a Kafkaesque atmosphere in which professors brought before the panel often did
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