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October 27, 2015
Entropy update: Liberal students losing interest in free speech
Wall Street Journal - 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does not protect “hate speech,” while 30 percent of self-identified liberal students say the First Amendment is outdated.
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