Its Marchtime for Madness and three more weeks to break

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Its Marchtime for Madnessand three more weeks
to break!

• Monday
• Overview of Free Speech Society
• Wednesday
• More Free Speech stuff
• Friday Lab
• Bring TWO COPIES of Peer Critique to Lab

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Communication Controversy O the Day Report

Blue Barracudas Meridith Allen Alex
Anderson Stormie Dorrell Zachary Gideon
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Moving On . . . Whos Up Next?

• Group 4
• Louis Doerflinger
• Natalie Horsch
• Sonya Scott
• Shannon Van De Velde
• Candace Williams

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Are you a Free Speech Absolutist?

• In a Perfect World . . .
• Should you be free to speak your mind / express
  yourself?
• Anything . . . . . Anywhere . . . . . Anytime???
• Should you be free to hear, read, view whatever
  you wish?
• Where do you draw the line?
• What speech SHOULD be limited or restricted?

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Generic Ballot

• A. YES / Agree
• restrict or limit
• B. NO / Disagree
• do not restrict or limit

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Freedom of Speech . . .Thats so pre 9/11 ??

• National High School Student Survey
• Should newspapers be allowed to
• publish freely WITHOUT government
• approval of stories? 50 agree
• Flag burning should be illegal 75 agree
• The government should restrict
• material posted on the Internet 50 agree
• The 1st Amendment goes too far
• in guaranteeing free speech rights 40 agree

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Are any of your freedoms under assault?

• Should you be able to wear a T-shirt to class
  that says anything on it you wish to express?
• Should you have access to the speeches of our
  Supreme Court justices?
• If Pres. Bush or VP Cheney came to Mizzou, should
  you be able to protest their visit?

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Wear (or record) these words?
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Out of sight, out of mind?
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A freedoms quiz

• What are your
• 1st Amendment
• Freedoms?

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Your specific 1st Amendment freedoms? (E)

• Freedom of (from) speech
• Freedom of (from) religion
• Freedom of the press
• Right of peaceful assembly
• Right to petition Government (redress of
  grievances)

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1st Amendment (e)

• Congress shall make no law respecting an
  establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
  free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom
  of speech, or of the press or the right of the
  people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
  Government for a redress of grievances.

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Struggle between Freedom Control (E)

• Although our democracy values extreme
  individual freedom we realize this freedom can
  only go so far . . .

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The Individual vs. Society (E)

• SOCIAL ORDER CONTINNUM
• Relativism Moral Certainty
• - - - - - - - -

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Three broad types of restrictions (e)

• TIME
• PLACE
• MANNER