Campus Speech Restrictions

Posted by michael on Monday January 8, 2001 @06:49AM from the kent-state dept.

It's only tangentially related to the internet, but the Chronicle of Higher Education is running a story about 'free-speech zones' being set up at certain colleges. Or, if you look at it another way, 'non-free-speech zones' being set up. Assuming these 'zones' are administered in the same way as they are in New York City, the object is to make the zone as far away as possible from anywhere they could be heard, so as to minimize the impact of the protest. I found the article quite interesting as a recap of the current state of campus speech restrictions.

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Scary. by Snowfox · 2001-01-08 02:20 · Score: 4

I visited my girlfriend at California State University in Chico.

They have a section of a park which is reserved for free speech. I asked a few people what that meant about the rest of the campus and it was eerie -- everybody seemed to think of it as a cool extra that had been granted to them. Nobody saw it as something taken away.

*shudder* ... double plus good for the Orwelians, I suppose.