Speech Codes

Damn fine paper too long Speech Codes         The academic year ends as it began. Campus enforcers, the deans and administrators of universities, are still busy denying that any effort to restrict free speech exists. The concern over 'political correctness,' they say, is overstated. Such denials don't alter the clear evidence that freedom of speech is no longer assured at many colleges and universities.         We have only to look at schools where nervously compliant administrations …

…faculty, which specifically rejects any infringement or monitoring of speech, for whatever reason. Perhaps more universities will follow there lead one day, but that day can come only when college presidents and chancellors, deans, and the other scared and discreet souls running the universities today stop accommodating the political whining and start to behave like administrators who are there to help students with an education not to expel them for a laugh and a look.