Students Don't Need To Fear On-Campus Expression
(Source: Flickr) In Patriot Talon’s December 9 issue, Opinion Editor David Young called on UT-Tyler administration to establish a free speech zone that would confine all campus speech activity to one campus location. Young claimed the university’s commitment to free speech placed students at risk of injury due to how others would use free speech. Young cited traveling preacher Jesse Morrell of Open Air Outreach and stated that a speaker like him, under administration’s current commitment to free speech, could subject students to controversial viewpoints that run against their personal beliefs and Young floated the idea that an off-campus speaker could even follow a student around campus and harass them in the name of free speech. Lastly, among his critiques for the administration, Young claimed that UT-Tyler officials left the campus without rules for this chaotic environment and that the solution was to establish a designated zone for all on-campus speech. Young wrote, “in...