College Students Freedom of Speech violated-Amber Fleet

College students claim they were threatened after handing out Constitutions

The Freedom of Speech is a basic right that the citizens of this country have. The right to express our opinions, ideas, or thoughts with anyone that we so please. So why is it that there are continuous problems with the government or institution officials that want to limit us in doing that?

As society continues to develop and there are different mediums for how people can express those ideas, than we as citizens have a problem. In college, where students or young adults come to an institution to evolve, learn, and express themselves as people, officials of that institution want to limit them. The officials want the students to conduct themselves accordingly. This conduct gives the idea that they want them to walk in straight lines, wear respectable clothing, talk at a normal level, and think the way that the professors instruct them to.

However, this becomes apparent when student at Southern Oregon University came together to have a peaceful protest. These students that were a part of a student organization on campus were passing out Constitutions to students and getting them to sign a petition that could possibly allow people on campus to be licensed to carry handguns on campus. Despite the fact that they were doing this in a peaceful manor, officials made them move to their “Free Speech Zone”, an area that covers less than one percent of their campus.

These students feel that their rights to protest and Freedom of Speech were violated because officials threatened them with calling the police. This issue of being peaceful and still having school officials limit you in what you want to do shows there is a real problem. Students and Americans should feel safe that when they want to express their ideas peacefully they should do that without the fear of being harmed or persecuted.

From class, we have learned that Freedom of Speech is threatened and we should try to promote and gather together in order to achieve a solution. The solution should be a way for the people to speak our minds.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/16/college-students-claim-were-threatened-after-handing-out-constitutions/

http://www.thefire.org/?s=12+ways