Essay 3 Pdffile offinal draft due at 11:59pm in dropbox on 11/20/15 Purpose: Develop a thesis-driven, 4-5 page essay that uses evidence from authoritative and academic sources for support. Requirements: • 4-5 pages. (The page requirement does not include the works cited page.) • MLA formatting. • Citation of at least 2 of the 4 readings assigned for our in-class discussions. • Citation of 1-2 articles published within the past ten years from peer-reviewed journals. • Citation of 1-2 authoritative websites. • Given the above requirements, your paper must cite 4-8 outside sources in total. Overview: In February of 2015, members of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis found that vandals had sprayed a swastika on their building. At least three other incidents of vandalism involving the public display of a swastika on university buildings have been in the news within this past year. The University of Oklahoma expelled two students from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for leading a racist chant that advocated the lynching of black men. These recent events, and others like them, challenge universities to develop effective means of addressing racism and other types of discrimination on college campuses. Some universities have adopted campus speech codes in an effort to create and ensure safe, healthy, and tolerant learning environments for the success of all students. Other universities and public groups, however, maintain that suppressing speech is not an effective means of dealing with or eradicating intolerance. At the heart of debates about campus speech codes is the balancing of First Amendment rights and civil liberties and freedom from harassment and discrimination.
For this assignment, you must read and analyze articles from experts involved in the debate over campus speech codes in order to develop your own informed argument in response to question below. Prompt: Develop a thesis-driven, 4-5 page paper in response to the following question: To what extent are campus speech codes beneficial? ‘vat.- .4,11 Essay 3 Introduction ■oe-ntc,5 Reading due: Uelmen (bring hard copy to class): “The Price of Free Speech: Campus Hate Speech Codes” (bb link) Library session; class meets in Library, room 116 Independent student research; find 2-3 sources from peer-reviewed journals Reading due (bring hard copies to class): McConnell, -Why Harvard’s Hate Speech Policies are Necessary” (bb link); Brooks “I Am Not Charlie Hebdo” (bb link) Reading due (bring hard copy to class): Svarda “Perform at Your Own Peril” (bb link) Data table due 3 copies of 3-page rough drafts due at the beginning of class Pdifile of final draft due at 11:59pm in dropbox on 11/20/15
11/1/2015 Free Speech: Campus Hate Speech Codes
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The Price of Free Speech: Campus Hate Speech Codes
by Gerald Uelmen
At Emory University, certain conduct that is permissible off campus is not allowed on campus. Specifically, some speech and behaviors are prohibited in Emory’s version of what are derogatorily labeled “politically correct” codes but are more commonly known as hate speech codes. Emory’s code begins with its definition of banned behavior.
Discriminatory harassment includes conduct (oral, written, graphic or physical) directed against any person or, group of persons because of their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran’s status and that has the purpose or reasonably foreseeable effect of creating an
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