College Speech Codes...Tell Us What You Really Think!

University of Oregon has quite a few speech codes they include, "Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity: Definitions Related to Discrimination, Student Conduct Code: Definitions, Student Conduct Code: Violations of Community Standards by Individual Students, and University of Oregon Bias Response Team." The speech codes really had to do with Student Conduct, I know when my dad was there the students were tear gassed because of a protest about the Vietnam War. U of O students wanted to speak their minds and become a part of society, so they decided to protest which was their rights as a US citizen. The police thought otherwise and stopped it. My dad told me that U of O students had a little bit of a problem accepting the African American students onto their campus. Some of the students, like my dad, had grown up out west and some in small towns were their weren't many African Americans. They were a bit surprised to see African Americans in college, but they didn't harm them in any way, it was more about learning to accept them.

The restrictions of Free Speech don't really impact me too much. I believe it's a good thing to have on a campus where you aren't being watched all the time by teachers like in High School. I think it's more protective of the student body to have a bit of a restriction on Free Speech. I wouldn't want to be harassed at a place where I should feel safe.

This doesn't change my mind at all. I still want to go to U of O even though I probably will stay closer to home. (Thanks Mom!!) I personally like the restrictions, but that's just a personal opinion.

I fully believe that the restrictions are legal. If they didn't need to be in place than they wouldn't be, and I don't believe that the University would want the restrictions to be illegal. That's not the kind of school they are, they don't just make restrictions to make them.

U of O would not tolerate the actions that I read about in the other articles. They were implying harm onto other people and the University would have punished those responsible. I would have been behind the Universtiy 100% because thoes types of actions are rude and could be dangerous to others. U of O wants their students to feel safe on the campus because it's their home for 4+ years and it's their job to make the students want to be their.

Become a DUCK!!