Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Speech codes  

There is an excellent article on The Atlantic Online by Stuart Taylor, Jr., called "How Campus Censors Squelch Freedom of Speech: Under the guise of enforcing vague rules against racial or sexual 'harassment,' censorship is thriving."

Dartmouth is included as an example of a school with a vague rule that could be applied to censor students. The rule at Dartmouth that Taylor cites is, ""sexual harassment [can be] subtle and indirect, possibly even unintentional." This is about as open ended as it gets... As Andrew Grossman points out at www.dartlog.net, this could apply to a guy walking across the Green carrying a copy of Rolling Stone magazine or Maxim.
Posted by Jedidiah  |   7/16/2003 07:32:04 PM   |