ACLU steps in at Univeristy of Missouri

The case that I looked at was very broad about the University of Missouri and the issues that they are facing right now. The ACLU has stepped on campus at the University of Missouri with the local police and have made the statement that the university is  "Mistakenly addressing symptoms — instead of causes — and doing it in a way that runs counter to the First Amendment is not the wise or appropriate response," which I found to be a very interesting concept. I think that what the ACLU is saying is very important because the university is facing several issues right now with the first amendment with protests and journalist covering the events at the university due to their lack of action when students reported forms of hate speech on campus. If university work hard to make sure that students who feel threatened are protected then there wouldn't be a backlash of all of these extra cases. In the article I read about the ACLU stepping in also offered the opinion of the president of the Libertarian Club's thoughts on this issue and his differ from the ACLU quite a bit. This students expressed that if we start addressing every single person that says something that offends another person then things get dangerous, students say things every day that offend each other but that does not call for the action of administration just because it offended someone. This student does have a point and I would agree with him to an extent, students shouldn't being calling the campus or local police every time they feel they've been stepped on but the events that were happening prior to this were more than offensive and from what I understand were form of hate speech towards the black students on the campus of the University of Missouri. I think that the university definitely has the right to not tolerate students who make other students feel unsafe or threatened while on campus. I think the ACLU is completely right in its advising that the University of Missouri should address the causes and not the symptoms of these kind of issues, the original forms of hate speech should've been addressed and then we wouldn't be having first amendment issues with the protests.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/12/aclu-urges-university-missouri-to-better-protect-students-free-speech/



Brooke Randels