Author: sally cao

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/05/31/students-value-free-expression-only-if-its-not-derogatory-or-hurtful-essay

Having discussed how at CUNY, we should be allowed “freedom of speech” (in the sense that we have academic freedom) it would seem that surveys show that students would actually like restrictions on freedom of speech.

Although in some aspects this seems strange, it would seem that the article pulls in how social media plays a role in why some students would prefer restrictions. Saying as to how, “civil” discussions on social media are not always a thing (around 60%) and how too many people are able to say things anonymously.

When it comes to free speech on school campuses, the article discusses how students are not willing to express themselves freely, mainly due to how what they might say will affect how they are identified. It would seem that with that being an issue, students will not speak with complete honestly about others, so they are able to maintain their own image.

Since I do not use social media, as often as I think I should, I often feel left out when things happen that pertain to social media. Most of what I know relating to social media often happens when a friend sends me something related to the topic of social media. Most of the social media topics I do know about, often related to “uncivil” discussions. I often think back to a “hashtag” that had gone around twitter, involving how women were proud of their abortions. Reading through that hashtag at the time, I probably would have commented with a lot of backlash since I personally felt that most of the post in the hashtag were very disturbing. Wanting to get rid of your child because ” I don’t want my pregnancy to hold me back during my vacation ” was something I personally could not stand.

In a sense I feel that having total “freedom of speech” online, might indeed tarnish your image. Although to force people to need to censor themselves is not something that is necessary. I feel that if a person, in this case possibly a student, were to write something within social media that makes themselves look bad, they should have every right to do so. They at that point are an adult and whatever they choose to say have consequences, that they need to deal with themselves.

When doing the final paper for this class, many different ideas came to my mind. My original college idea, was to have a business based college, however I couldn’t find a way to make that idea unique to all the other business schools found throughout the country. I have always had an interest in numbers, however in the past I had some interest in the health field as well, mostly with the ideas of nutrition.

In high school I took an interesting nutrition course, where I got to learn a lot about the body and your body’s health. However coming to Brooklyn College I dropped the idea of majoring in something nutrition based, however I used those interest in my college proposal.

My basic set up for my college would be to have a four-year undergraduate college, where it would specialize in dietician/nutritional based courses and majors. Although my original idea had been for the college to be an institution where students who attended would be able to obtain a license to be certified. I decided that making my college a simple stepping stone to help those who were dedicated and wanted to be a nutritionist, rather than a school which is accredited to provide licenses. (partly because it would be more difficult to have a school with these programs to be run, considering the accreditation process)

Part of the idea for this stepping stone idea came from a good friend I have, who is studying to be a pharmacist at St. Johns. Most of the beginning courses my friend has to take are the simple stepping stones needed for her to become a pharmacist. I wanted to put the idea of allowing students to have a good background on what they plan to do in place. By having a school specialized in nutrition, it would open up more to different students and educate them more about how they would be able to help people.

A major thing that I had wanted to integrate into my school, would be a program to allow students to travel to countries to help those in a third world country. (somewhat like a global brigade, only more specialized) This would allow for students to learn how to handle people who need help fixing a diet that is basically minimal, as opposed to the common diets we encounter in the US where we consume too much food.

Although most of the ideas I had set within my College might not be perfect, I feel that some type of college along these lines could possibly be established, since nutrition is something that people should be worried over.