Martin P. Golding's Campus Speech Issues

Martin P. Golding, the writer of Campus Speech Issues, examines the difference between freedom of speech, which is an american right by the first amendment, compared to speech codes, which are implemented in university rules and regulations to monitor and police certain unsavory speech on school grounds.
This article utilizes a lot of facts that can strike an emotional response from almost any group. Beginning on page 662, Golding lists incidents that occured on campuses within the last ten years that can be considered by many, a breach of appropriate campus conduct, in regards to speech. One of his examples, on page 623, states that a biology professor wrote about female students who accept invites to male students rooms, should “bear some responciblity for such alleged rapes.” Because these are all factual occuracnes, they hold a lot of weight in his article. They also have an emotional appeal to the reader since each one is relatable to nearly every type of person. He also references legitimate court cases regarding freedom of speech to solidify his message which is an excellent use of logos.

I was not easily able to understand whether he was for or against campuses imposing laws to regulate speech. It wasn't until the last paragraph where he finally states that “in order to resolve camplus speech issues, recourse must be had to the provisions underlying rationale or justification, and even then problems could remain,” (p. 628). This statement is not very compelling, nor does it sound like he believes anything can be done on either side to mediate the problem. I also had an issue recognizing the tone of his article. He used a lot of parenthesis to further explain certain thoughts which i found made this difficult to follow. Often sentences were interrupted with small tidbits of information that wasn't always necessary to what point he was trying to