Student Speech Should Not Be Censored Summary

Infringement of the Freedom of Expression Posed with the question, “why is the University of Chicago associated with so many winners of the nobel prize-- 90 in all”, university president, Robert Zimmer responded, that “the key was a campus culture committed to ‘discourse, argument, and lack of deference.’” sparking him to analyze this deeper Zimmer noticed that, “while chinese academics have made strides to ‘inject more argumentation and challenge into their education,’ their American peers are moving ‘in the opposite direction.’ As universities go, so ultimately go the fate of nations”. This idea closely correlates with the arguments about freedom of expression presented in the articles, Student Speech Should Not Be Censored and Employees

In Student Speech Should Not Be Censored, author, Debra Saunders argues that, “speech should not be censored(Saunders 156)”. Meaning that as a student if I want to have a sign that says “Bong Hits 4 Jesus(Saunders 156)”, I should be allowed to. If I'm not allowed to do that then I'm not really being given my 1st amendment right. Saunders states “The Big Bench must not walk away from a 1969 ruling that upheld students’ rights to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War(Saunders 159)”. She uses this to basically call out how we managed to rule on the behalf of our right to free expression, but yet now the courts are ruling against those rights. How can we justify changing this stance when it’s fighting the same fight we dealt with so many years ago. This differs from Michael Rainey’s stance in that he argues that despite we may not like infringing on our right to expression happening like it or not. Rainey says “In fact, with as many as 90 percent of companies doing this already, the future is very much here now(Rainey 184)”. Rainey seems to be

Debra Saunders provides the viewpoint that even in a school setting there should be no cutting off our right. We all understand that in a school setting we are under the control of the school, but that doesn't give them the right to suppress expression. We have the same right to be who we are inside and outside of school and express that in whatever way we choose. On the other side, Michael Rainey claims that although looking through that candidates social media could help a company steer clear of a problem, it's still a infringing on our freedom. Rainey says “For job seekers and employees, social media is very much a tool in reputation management(Rainey 184)”. It's hard to argue Rainey's stance because most of the time your social media gives a good sense of who you are as a person. When thinking about it as a positive we can see where it could make a positive impact on future employment. Ultimately, there's no instance where we should not be able to express our self in the ways we choose. Debra responds “School officials do not possess absolute authority over students(Debra 158)”, they already control everything else in a school environment, and are now infringing on civil liberties. We are already told what classes we must take when we must eat our lunch and now they are getting to the place where they just about tell us how to think. Even the way things stand now we shouldn't be scared that we