1. The speech left provides for an internal speech code which passes through a working memory system where it can be examined. 2. Already, courts have struck down student speech codes as unconstitutional in New Hampshire, Michigan, California, and elsewhere. 3. As colleges diversified, speech codes for students and faculty were seen as one buffer. 4. Beyond Wisconsin, academics are divided on the usefulness of speech codes and whether they can ever pass constitutional muster. 5. Almost all campuses currently have some sort of speech code or policy on verbal harassment or bigoted speech. 6. But speech codes have done little to ease campus tensions, critics say. 7. But veterans of the fight against the speech code remember vividly that Bollinger did not speak out publicly until the matter was already in federal court. 8. Critics say the proposed speech code is Orwellian, an example of political correctness gone awry. 9. Dozens of universities, businesses and institutions have experimented with highly controversial speech codes. 10. Faculty members on the evaluation committee say they are not trying to limit student speech or apply speech codes. |
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