Speech Codes

I believe that the behavior the students showed should be banned for so many different reasons. Beta Theta Pi and Beta Theta Pi always included people of all colors and relgions and when those students wore KKK clothes and dressed as african americans being hung, they destroyed that image. Another thing is what about the african americans that go to the school. When they show up to the party and there are people in white robes walking around fake lynching people I would think that either they would be very angry or scared. I'm jewish and if I went to a party and saw people dressed up as nazis and KKK members I would be offended and scared to think that maybe they are anti semitic and would not want to go to that school surrounded by people like that. I believe that it is the school's responsibility to keep their students safe from hate crimes like that. Here are some of the pictures from the part https://docs.google.com/present/viewid=0AVf_DLqQA9ovZGZ2bTR3ZmdfMGZ6M25iNWc2&hl=en_US

I decided that I would like to go to Iowa State University and their speech codes are pretty good. Iowa State belives that there should be no sexual harassment and discrimination in the school, but they believe that students should be able to encourage"...the intellectual and personal growth of its students as scholars and citizens..." so they are not strict on freedom of expression. I believe the codes are to protect the students from being bullied and to make them feel like they can express their opinion without gets attacked. I believe that speech codes should be allowed in all schools because they don't hurt students. A group called FIRE help students find out if the college they are looking at have speech codes and if they are aggresive about it. I am glad that we have FIRE because it helped me see some things about college that I never thought about looking at.