A few minutes ago, I viewed several photos of colleges students messing around and taking inappropriate and offensive photos toward African Americans. Although these photos were overwhelming and shocking, I did not find them to be unlawful or unconstitutional. I believe that this behavior is very inappropriate, and these kids should feel terrible for their actions, however, college students can make their own decisions. They should not be punished by the school or by the government, as these punishments will come down the road when job opportunities are shot down due to their prior decisions. Bad decisions will almost always come back to haunt you, and it is no ones place to punish college students, for only they can punish themselves.
I went to the University of Miami OH's website to check out their speech code policies. What I saw was almost exactly as I expected. Of course they listed all of their violations and the corresponding punishments for them. One of the things that shocked me was how liberal it was. I then looked at University of Texas at Austin, and noticed that their policies were almost identical. This brought me to the conclusion that almost all universities will be liberal and mainly hands off for students speech. Both schools I looked at would have responded to the offensive party in the following way: Neither would have gone out of their way to stop it, however if caught, the kids could have been charged with a variety of things, such as disturbing the peace.
Although schools have been frowned upon for some of their deicsions, because of the difficulty of the situation they have been doing a good job.
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