<p>Any ideas on how the administration can create a formal outlet to respond to hateful speech/mentalities incidents that occur on college campuses (especially for small schools- communities of less than 2000 people)</p>
<p>Like maybe a referendum of some sort?</p>
<p>public forum to discuss university policy on hate speech?</p>
<p>hate speech IS protected under the first amendment, though, so in all honesty the university can't do very much to punish it.</p>
<p>Even at a private college?</p>
<p>What exactly are you looking for? Are you looking for a forum for discussion. If so, does your school have a newspaper that you could write in to? If you want the school to punish it, as leah377 said, that won't work (and IMO shouldn't).</p>
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public forum to discuss university policy on hate speech?</p>
<p>hate speech IS protected under the first amendment, though, so in all honesty the university can't do very much to punish it.
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Nope the first amendment only prevents the government from passing laws restricting free speech. Assuming this is a private university (probably is if it's <2000 people) the college can restrict whatever speech they want for whatever reason. If they wanted, they could expel you for saying that you don't like the color green.</p>
<p>sorry; i was assuming that we were talking about a public university--private colleges can absolutely restrict speech in any ways they desire.</p>