Colleges: First Amendment is outdated
"To put some numbers behind that perception, The William F. Buckley Jr.
Program at Yale recently commissioned a survey from McLaughlin &
Associates about attitudes towards free speech on campus. Some 800
students at a variety of colleges across the country were surveyed. The
results, though not surprising, are nevertheless alarming. By a margin
of 51 percent to 36 percent, students favor their school having speech
codes to regulate speech for students and faculty. Sixty-three percent
favor requiring professors to employ “trigger warnings” to alert
students to material that might be discomfiting. One-third of the
students polled could not identify the First Amendment as the part of
the Constitution that dealt with free speech. Thirty-five percent said
that the First Amendment does not protect “hate speech,” while 30
percent of self-identified liberal students say the First Amendment is
outdated. "
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