Katherine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education raises and reports on key issues facing public universities in states where lawmakers are restricting what faculty may say in the classroom. If students, on chat rooms or elsewhere, begin to propagate truly hateful rhetoric, how are administrators and faculty to make clear that such destructive speech, albeit constitutionally protected, does not reflect the values of the institution. If the remedy for hateful speech is supposed to be more speech, what happens when speakers eager to provide an antidote feel muzzled. Student comments in some of these chat rooms are beyond shocking. What exactly are we unleashing?




