Do North Carolina Students Have Freedom of Speech?
Do North Carolina Students Have Freedom of Speech? A Review of Campus Speech Codes Jenna Ashley Robinson TheThe peculiar peculiar evilevil of This report examines the speech, assembly, and religious protections for students and faculty at North silencingof silencing the theexpression Carolina’s universities—both public and private. ofexpression an opinion of is, an that it is It consists of three sections: first, an examination robbingopinion the humanis, that itrace; is posterity of the importance of First Amendment rights to robbing the human race; educational objectives; second, an explanation of the as well as the existing generation; methodology for measuring rights violations; and third, posterity as well as the those who dissent from the a school-by-school rating based on university policies existing generation; those that restrict freedom of speech and association. opinion, still more than those who who dissent from the opinion, For this project, the Pope Center worked in conjunction holdstill it. more If the than opinion those iswho right, they with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education arehold deprived it. If the of opinion the opportunity is right, of (FIRE), a nonprofit educational organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This report uses FIRE’s exchangingthey are deprived error for of truth:the if wrong, speech code rating system to judge the speech theyopportunity lose, what of exchangingis almost as great policies at North Carolina colleges and universities. error for truth: if wrong, a benefit, the clearer perception they lose, what is almost as Why Is Speech Important? and livelier impression of truth, great a benefit, the clearer America’s colleges and universities are supposed to be strongholds of classically liberal ideals including producedperception by andits collisionlivelier with error.
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