Scorpions

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

September 11

September 11 was the day America wept.  The movie we watched about September 11 took more of a regular ordinary people approach.  The movie focused on the days after September 11. Many people spoke on their reactions to the planes hitting the tower.  They could not believe what was happening they knew after the second plane hit it was no accident.  One of the more important parts how the city of New York came together as one to help out people who were suffering from this terrible disaster. The movie focused on many different perspectives and there were many different filmmakers.  There was a side to every story.  The movie gets the reaction from kids.  They asked kids what they thought of all this and this one kid stood out because he talked like he was 40.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Speech Codes

Colleges and universities routinely punish students and faculty for their speech, writings, and membership in campus groups. Administrators create and enforce speech codes in an attempt to outlaw free speech and free expression that do not conform to various new campus orthodoxies. For example, in recent years, the following speech codes (some later modified after public exposure) have existed on America’s campuses: what is more important in an academic community, an atmosphere in which anyone feels free to express any opinion or one in which no one feels persecuted or insulted? This dilemma has arisen as many colleges and universities have adopted speech codes, regulations that prohibit speech or other conduct that is abusive, threatening, or demeaning toward women, racial or ethnic minorities, or in some cases other groups as well. At the University of Pennsylvania, for example, a student had to appear before a disciplinary committee after using the term "water buffaloes" when shouting at several African-American women who were making noise on the street below his dorm room. At Oberlin College two Asian students brought charges against the editors of a campus humor magazine who had written a parody about Chinese food. Although both of these cases were subsequently dismissed, they illustrate the need for a clarification of what kind of speech is acceptable on a college campus and what kind, if any, is not.

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