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First thesis statement stated that they use humor in the description and make it seem like it’s normal. The whole article is completely crazy to be honest, the fact that a school would even consider cutting this is crazy. Yes, they may need to save money but it”s very funny as to how they plan on saving money. It doesn’t make very much sense which is also part of the humor

In the article “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, too” published in the New York Times by Sophie Downes, Downes argues in response to a letter sent out by the dean of the University of Chicago. The letter states that safe spaces and trigger warnings were an issue deterring students from having free speech and therefore would not be supported on the Chicago campus anymore. Downes argues that the letter was just a poor attempt to advert attention away from the real issues on the campus—ones that the dean will not meet with student council about and will not talk about at all. Sophie Downes argues that safe spaces and trigger warnings actually encourage free space and enhance support and community—two values that the dean said were deterred by the existence of them.

Newspaper reporting is all about finding stories that will appeal to readers. Journalists try to uncover the real situations and problems that affect those readers and write the truth. What if writers were forbidden to write these articles? It may sound like something that could never happen in America, where citizens’ freedom of speech is protected, but the reality is that it is happening. In schools around the country, student newspapers are being censored and their stories yanked out or manipulated to reflect biased opinions. Uncensored journalism in school is necessary because it teaches the First Amendment, it allows kids to fight the wrongs in their world, and it keeps school faculty from having to fight for students’ articles.

The University of Southern California found themselves in a situation questioning their policies. This time, however, it did not lead to the correct and warranted action. According to Flaherty (2017), the University of Southern California has failed to sufficiently address a student’s harassment allegations against a professor. Although the professor, Dr. Guerrero, was disciplined by the university and warned that any reoccurrence would lead to dismal. Karissa Fenwick, however, was disappointed that he was not terminated after the university determined that misconduct had occurred (Flaherty, 2017). The underlying issue in this article is that American colleges and universities disciplinary measures or lack thereof are failing to

These are but a few of the provocative headlines to capture the attention of faculty and administrators in recent years. Such essays, for many, introduced terms like trigger warnings, microaggressions, and safe spaces, now commonplace in media coverage of academic life in the 21st century. The stories they tell involve a wide range of issues, but the overarching themes that bind them include concerns about restrictions on free speech, student sensitivity, and evolving campus policies regarding acceptable content and language in and out of the classroom. My role today as a member of

Students now have the ability to use their emotions to their benefit, which holds the universities at a disadvantage. Colleges are at the disadvantage because the minority students have a shield surrounding them for complete protection from their actions. The minority students have such a strong say in how universities run their campus which limits the majority of students to what they can and cannot do. With all this power being tolerated by the schools, this proves that emotional reasoning is a real thing and the minority groups across campuses are using it to their

Brian and Gloria are students at Roger Williams University who share different views on a touchy subject. Brian, a freshman, reached out to Gloria, a senior and chair of CEN, wishing to invite Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at our campus. After doing research on Yiannopoulos, Gloria believes he is “racist and sexist” and goes against everything Roger Williams University stands for. Gloria feels Yiannopoulos would offend many students on campus, possibly leading to violence. She thinks Roger Williams would not allow Yiannopoulos to speak at our campus, so we shouldn’t allow him to either. However, Brian believes Roger Williams University is an “inclusive” campus and we welcome and value all expressions of diversity and identity. Brian says Roger Williams was probably the first American to “challenge societal norms”, and we should follow in his footsteps. Brian feels Gloria is being narrow-minded and he is being denied his right to free speech and peaceful assembly.

The students never asked consent of the adult to publish the story. Since it is a private matter the school might get sued because the newspaper is under the school’s responsibilities to censor it or publish it.Some people might take offense and the responsibilities would fall onto the school not the students. The article could have distracted the students opinion and not focus on school curriculum. Changing the name of the students was enough because it didn’t make it private. Rumors will spread since schools are small and it’s obvious which people are pregnant in the

The consistent offensive behavior being aimed at multiple communities, has impacted students significantly. There were periods when people were scared to even walk alone on campus, due to threats and bullying.

The presence of fear begins to reduce when students start to create a tolerant, inclusive social normality. This theory is discussed in a study conducted by Rebecca L. Stoltzer and Emily Hosselman. It is concluded that when looking at the pros and cons of a more diversely populated campus climate, these results insinuate a, “promising relationship between increased diversity in the student body and a reduced number of hate crimes on campus” (Stoltzer and Hosselman 654). It is Stoltzer and Hosselman that actually argue the investigation of how students rather than the institutions can reflect on campus climate. This can once again be completely traced back to student interpretation and how they choose to react or not react on those interpretations. This topic is also explored in an article by Raymond A. Winbush in which he pleads to, “Establish a campus committee involving high-level administrators and students from both the victimized group and popular campus organizations such as fraternities and sororities” as one of his do’s on a list of do’s and don’ts (Winbush par. 26). This is a great way in order to promote inclusion without instilling fear or blame on certain groups of

What most influenced my decision and interpretations in this case was the fact that the students could not be trusted with concealing the identities of the interviewees within the article, since it was proven that their identities were not fully hidden. The topics in the article were about teen pregnancy and criticism of parents, which can be controversial and thus distracting in a school environment. The principal of the school, upon observation, noticed the identities were not hidden well. With a deadline to meet, there was no way the students would have been able to revise the newspaper and reorganize the articles, so the principal took out the pages. In this case the principal made a responsible decision given the interests of the school

While some may agree that it is not appropriate to keep selling and buying a newspaper every few months, using several different strategies and laying off employees that are essential to the newspaper in order to keep it alive has certainly not work in the past years. The price tag keeps falling every year, while, the amount of money needed to keep publishing daily editions increases. Currently, the newspaper does not have the capacity to investigate and report all the potential news in the City of Philadelphia as the number of staff has immensely decreased in the last several years. Subsequently, there are numerous local business owners in Philadelphia that are fighting to find a solution to the problem. The Philadelphia Inquirer has been in existence for almost185 years. The paper was a key source of news during the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War I and II, shutting down the Inquirer will end a key role in the evolution of the American

As the saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Whether this goes for businesses, foundations, programs, or universities, this profound statement almost always proves to be correct. At Medill, this saying especially holds true when a student is found guilty of a code violation. If code is broken, not only is the student penalized for it, but so is Medill; the credibility of the entire school is put into question. As journalists, our goal is to present information to the public that keeps them knowledgeable about the world around them. If we present work to people that is not truthful, harmful, biased, unprofessional, or anything of that manner, it could majorly discredit not only the journalist, but Medill entirely, which

In his editorial, “The Year of the Imaginary College Student,” Hua Hsu asserts that “alarm about offense-seeking college students say[s] more about critics than the actual state of affairs.” Hsu begins his article by discussing James O’Keefe’s attempt at Vassar College to depict that college students are as politically sensitive as they appear. He goes on to demonstrate that college students are getting increasingly more “hypersensitive.” Hsu then questions the “surge of interest in campus life,” wondering why people who are not in college are questioning the behavior of those in college. Next, Hsu states that this panic about “offense-seeking college students” says more about the people criticizing rather than the system. Elucidating, he

Every semester, as parents get their children ready for college, they are filled with mixed emotions and thoughts, such as, sadness because their children have now turned into adults who are getting ready to take on the world. Also, parents experience pride because their children was accepted into college. However, many parents and students assume that all colleges are equally safe because of the college’s police patrolling the area, there are professors and other administration, and services like counseling and crisis intervention programs that are available to mediate any problems that arises. Also, another reason as to why parents and students have this false security about college is because majority of the incidents that happens in college does not get reported to the administration and proper authority, outside police force and the news station because of fear of what an investigation might uncover, thus many students and college staff try to either hide any incidents or take care of it themselves.