Should_Speech_Codes_Be_Allowed_On_College_Campuses_

Should Speech Codes Be Allowed On College Campuses' In 1993, Eden Jacobowitz, a freshman at Penn State, was studying in his dorm room. It was after midnight. At the same time, a group of black women were making a lot of noise beneath the dorm windows. Jacobowitz, who was born in Israel, joined with other students who shouted at the women to quiet down. He used a Hebrew word that roughly translated in English to water buffaloes, which the women deemed racist. The women complained and the politically correct university officials launched an investigation. Jacobowitz, the only student to come forward on his own and volunteer that he did indeed shout at the women, said he meant no slur and offered repeatedly to meet with the women and explain. Penn's judicial process denied him any such opportunity. Lost also was any admonition of the women or admission by them that perhaps there was some error on their part for loudly singing and chanting outside the dorms on a week night after midnight. In defense of the University's action against Jacobowitz, Penn President Sheldon Hackney never mentioned the importance of free speech on a college campus. Rather, he chose to observe that " 'open expression' and 'diversity' needed to be balanced." (Shapiro/Sparks speech, codes, women, trying, free, out, just, first, amendment, restrict, problems, people, past, one, freedom, things, implementing, constitution, college, 29, weed, university, think, should, say, said, roots, rights, restrictions, rather, needed, make, jacobowitz, ideas, hateful, go