Compare and Contrast Essay
October 20, 2013
How safe are college campuses today? In the articles "Mob Rule on College Campuses" by Cinnamon Stillwell and "Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges" by Harvey A. Silverglate and Greg Lukianoff describe college issues involving the freedom of speech. Both of these articles talk about how freedom of speech can cause many problems in college. Even though these articles are on the same topic, they are on very different forms of freedom of speech. In "Mob Rule on College Campus and in "Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges" both talk about how there is harassment all throughout colleges. But the two pieces of literature talk about two different ways of harassment. Both of the …show more content…
According to the text former liberal activist- author, conservative activist- author David Horowitz tried to speak at San Francisco State University. Little did he know that is was going to end very poorly. During his speech he was interrupted the entire time by a group of college students in the back who were protesters. They shouted and commented on almost everything that he had to say. These bullies didn 't only hurt David but they also hurt the people who were actually trying to listen to the presentation. In "Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges" there are different forms of bullies. It describes how there are kids who put racial, or sexual harassment cartoons/articles in school newspapers. Most of the time a student will say something to a faculty member and the problem will get resolved fairly quick. Sometimes if it is a teacher that is involved in the harassment the dean of the college will have to get involved. If this occurs the teacher will either resign or come to a compromise like at the Harvard Business school. There were two teachers who got caught up in a racial harassment problem. One resigned, and the other agreed that from that moment on there would have to be a video camera taping his class in case there was anything like that again. As you can see these articles have two different forms of