Unlearning Liberty

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Who is the author of Unlearning Liberty?

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Greg Lukianoff

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In the information to this book, what does it say Hayden Barnes did to get in trouble with the President of his university?

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Protested the building of two parking garages

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Who is the author of Unlearning Liberty?

Greg Lukianoff

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In the information to this book, what does it say Hayden Barnes did to get in trouble with the President of his university?

Protested the building of two parking garages

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What was the main catalyst for the university reversing its decision to expel Hayden barns (example from the introduction) from school and offering him readmission?

A lawsuit by a First Amendment attorney

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What does FIRE stand for?

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

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What is the best description of the author’s political and social views?

Left leaning liberal

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What is the common misconception about censorship on campuses?

It is a liberal issue

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How does college censorship contribute to political polarization and the “failure of the golden Age of American Dialogue”?

The squelching of debate creates a comfortable, uncritical certainty of our own rightness

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Those with the highest levels of education have the lowest exposure to people with conflicting views.??

True

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The stifling of expression and the resulting consolidation of self-affirming cliques are harmful o higher education and our country for what reasons?

All the above; By surrounding ourselves with like-minded people we miss the opportunity to engage in back-and-forth debate which sharpens our critical thinking skills; The deadening of debate promotes a shallow and incomplete understanding of important issues and other ways of thinking; Campus censorship is a threat because it teaches students the wrong lessons about living in a free society.

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Which of the following best summarizes the state of censorship and freedom of speech at the K-12 level?

A shameful level of civics knowledge in combination with with poor students rights leaves students uninformed and comfortable with censorship

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In 1957, the Supreme Court of the United States recognized that “Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study, and to evaluate,…otherwise, our civilization will________?

stagnant and die

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Which of the following is identified as protected speech by the First Amendment?

Provocative insults

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What is “viewpoint discrimination”

When those in power shut down speech simply because they dislike the views expressed

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What is the only state to apply First Amendment standards ttto private universities?

California

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Colleges and universities are allowed to stop student takeovers of administrative buildings, kick disruptive students out of class, and punish students fro trying to disrupt a speech.

True

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Jonathan Rauch, in his book Kindly Inquisitors, describes an intellectual system which gave birth to the Enlightenment and eventually our own American political and economic system as _______.

Liberal science

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Which of the following is identified by the author as “mindless” and responsible for making it impossible to decide anything, creating double standards for ethics, and leading to “nonsense.”?

Uncritical relativism

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What are two critical rules to Liberal Science?

No one gets the final say and No one gets special, unchallengeable claims of “personal authority”

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What is “groupthink”?

When groups start toe grow cohesive, discourage and silence dissent, and end up making bad decisions

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What was one of the most influential motivations for creating “speech codes” on campus?

Commitment to diversity and tolerance

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Speech codes violate rights protected by the First Amendment.??

True

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What court case produced this formula for determining harassment: Unwelcome discriminatory behavior this is “so severe, persuasive, and objectively offense, and that so undermines and detracts from the victtims’ educational experience, that the victim-students effectively denied equal access to an institution’s resources and opportunities.

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

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What does the author see as a problem with interpretation of harrassment?

Wrongly creates a generalized “right not to be offended”

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Which of the following is not identified as a reason for silence and hesitation to engage in spirited debate in classrooms and on campus?

A lack of truly original ideas

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Other than speech codes, what two strategies employed by colleges to restrict free speech are most widely used and prevalent today?

Free speech zones; Required applications and permits

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What rights, given to colleges and protected by the First Amendment, are colleges abusing when they create “areas for free speech” that are ttoo tiny, placed in obscure areas, or both?

The right to regulate time, place, and manner

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What was the decision arrived at in 2010 in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case by the Supreme Court (an articulated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)?

Any public university could pass a rule that required all student organizations to accept any students, regardless of whether or not they believed in the tenets of the organization.

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In Chapter 9, in the example of “Weber’s Guidlines” set of requirements for college courses adopted by many college professors, what did the author (and others) take issues with?

It denied students the opportunity to argue out the conclusions on their own.

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When colleges and teachers impart “correct” beliefs tto students without training them to think critically, question authority and dogma, and have thoughtful debates, it produces students who…

Know what they’re supposed to believe but have very little inclination or even ability to explain why.

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According to studies: college students are paying more than ever and going into a lifetime of debt to learn less than they ever have before.??

True

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Which of the following is not an element of the author’s view of education’s highest function": ope debate

We should avoid offensive speech and dialogue

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What best sums up he author’s argument about “bullying”?

Never tolerate serious abusive acts of children against children, but don’t use bullying as a justification to censor adult freedom of speech

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“Hate Speech” is protected speech

True

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Which of the following is the justification most often given (and a profound misunderstanding of freedom of speech) by students who steal newspapers, vandalize public displays, and shout down speeches?

Suppression of the expression of others is an expression of their own right to free speech

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What is the authors main concern with the large amount of student government attempts at censorship?

These are supposed to be the raining grounds for future politicians and lawmakers.