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To: JohnM who wrote (133363)	8/21/2005 8:51:16 AM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793917

Speech codes are about hate speech directed at distinct minorities. It's rather odd to see a defense of free speech focus on hate speech. Remember I'm not talking about constitutionally protected rights. Just the right of a university to encourage (and teach) civility among its members. IMO, speech codes should be anathema to any professor whose own speech is protected by tenure.

To: JohnM who wrote (133363)	8/21/2005 9:23:04 AM
From: briskit	Respond to of 793917

Quotes from Austin Statesman editorial page: "I wish I lived in a world where it was possible to be religious and think at the same time." (John Graves, in My Red State Odyssey, editorialized as "An inspired thought.") Titled "No girls allowed" under a picture of John Roberts, "The presence of the opposite sex in the classroom will be confining rather than catholicizing....I would prefer to discuss Shakespear's double entendre and the latus rectum of conic sections without a blonde giggling and blushing behind me." (Roberts in a 1972 high school newspaper editorial opposing co-education at his all-boys prep school.)