Is Free Speech Alive and Well on College Campuses?
Filed in archive Campus Life by Mark on January 31, 2005
in the court of public opinion? Just ask Harvard's president.I say "renewed" because this issue seems to resurface every now and then. Remember the culture wars of the 1990s? The "water buffalo" incident at Penn during that time? How about the 1960s or the Vietnam protests of the '70s? Or the McCarthy era?
College campuses are supposed to celebrate the free exchange of ideas, no matter how inflammatory some may be. But when comments offend certain groups, people are quick to suggest the speaker has overstepped some predetermined boundaries. And leave it to extremists---on either the right or left, depending on the circumstances---to fan the flames.
Free speech? Is it ever?
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