States Consider Legislation To Protect Free Speech On Campus
On college campuses across the country, there is a pattern of violence in response to provocative speakers. Now, states are considering a model bill to protect free speech on campus.
On college campuses, outrage over provocative speakers sometimes turns violent.
It's becoming a pattern on campuses around the country. A speaker is invited, often by a conservative student group. Other students oppose the speaker, and maybe they protest. If the speech happens, the speaker is heckled. Sometimes there's violence.
In other cases — as with conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of California, Berkeley last week.
