Speech Codes on Campus

In my opinion, I think that behavior such as that characterized in the articles and slideshows from the prompt, should be banned on college campuses. College is a time to learn both in terms of education in the classroom and, possibly more importantly, a time to learn in social contexts. As a society it is our responsibility to make it clear to the college age generation that racism is not a joke, and it's not a means to have fun, this mission can only be accomplished through justifiable punishment of the students who partake in this behavior.
The pictures in the slideshow are disgraceful to not only the university that those students represented, but to our society in general. I understand that it would be nearly impossible to rid our society of hate and racism, but we should at least try to show students that this is not appropriate or justifiable behavior.


All of the colleges that I am looking at are private institutions, and some have religious affiliation. One school that I am interested in is, DePaul University. I was worried about if I would like this school because I was concerned that the religious affiliation would make it very strict and possibly conservative. However, when I went on the tour of the campus the student representative assured me that you could barely notice the religious affiliation on campus. When I looked up DePaul on the database it had a rating of 'red' this concerns me because I do not want to go to a school that is extremely restrictive or strict. I researched a couple other schools and found that the private schools without religious affiliation usually have a 'yellow' rating instead of 'red.' One thing that I noticed that makes me wonder if these ratings can be accurate is that most of the data and cases for each school are from no later than 2007. However, with this rating I believe that DePaul would probably punish students who conduct parties based on racism, and I approve of that.
I think that FIRE has a valid mission and I approve of their definitions for the most part. However, I believe that not all of their data is up to date and that makes it difficult for me to fully believe and justify my beliefs off of the provided information.