Tournament: Jesuit | Round: 1 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: any
Case

Framing

‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ - Voltaire

I affirm: Resolved: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech. 

I value morality, as per the evaluative term “ought” in the resolution. When discussing ethical obligations, we must look towards the specific obligations of individuals or institutions. For example, if I see a house burning down, I do not have an obligation to jump in and save the day. Instead, I have an obligation, as a citizen and member of my community, to call 911. However, if a firefighter sees a house burning down, she has an obligation to douse the fire because her job demands it. The university’s constitutive, specific obligation is to provide a good education for its students – it is the primary reason why these institutions are funded, and usually the explicit goals stated in the university’s mission statement. Thus, the value criterion is promoting educational flourishing on university campuses – the judge should vote for the side who proposes the best method to prepare college students for the real world.

Contention 1 is Social Change

Restrictions upon free speech silence movements for social progress.
American Civil Liberties Union 1 – Nonprofit and Nonpartisan Non-Governmental Organization. Member dues as well as contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals pay for the work we do. Formed in 1920. ACLU, No Date. "Hate Speech on Campus." American Civil Liberties Union.
A: Free speech rights are indivisible. Restricting the speech of one group or
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, publish or assemble any place in the United States are thereby weakened." 

Speech codes have historically backfired.
American Civil Liberties Union 2 Ibid.
Historically, defamation laws or codes have proven ineffective at best and counter-productive
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if we infringe on the rights of any persons, we'll be next." 

Speech codes are a band-aid for a bullet wound – they merely sweep racist beliefs under the carpet rather than addressing these arguments – we should disinfect with sunlight.
American Civil Liberties Union 3 Ibid.
Bigoted speech is a symptomatic of a huge problem in our country;
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institution accomplished nothing in the way of exposing the bankruptcy of racist ideas. 

Contention 2 is Rational Deliberation

Open intellectual inquiry is the foundation for colleges to challenge students’ beliefs and to contribute to society.
Reynolds ’15 – Reynolds, Glenn Harlan. (Reynolds is a University of Tennessee law professor, is the author of “The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.”) "Colleges Should Challenge Students' Beliefs." The Daily Journal. N.p., 08 Apr. 2015. Web. 27 Jan. 2017.
Adlai Stevenson once said, “A free society is a society where it is
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New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.”

Free speech restrictions create intellectual “echo-chambers” that severely decrease the value of a student’s education.
Kelly-Woessner ‘16 – KELLY-WOESSNER, APRIL. (Woessner is a professor and chairwoman of the political science department at Elizabethtown College) "The Fierce Debate over Free Speech on American College Campuses." LancasterOnline. N.p., 18 Sept. 2016. Web. 10 Jan. 2017. http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/the-fierce-debate-over-free-speech-on-american-college-campuses/article_8c208d66-7b65-11e6-88de-d78bce73d4c3.html. Premier                                                           
We are all uncomfortable with speech that challenges our core values. The evidence from
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define discussion participants as victims or perpetrators, we only exacerbate group conflicts. 

Freedom of expression is fundamental to the goals of universities.
Fleischer ’93 – Stephen Fleischer, JD, University of Iowa “Campus Speech Codes: The Threat to Liberal Education,” John Marshall Law Review, 1993.
Freedom of expression facilitates the university’s mission: to advance knowledge and encourage a search
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of tongues, rather than through any kind of authoritative selection.”

Students need to learn to deal with difference, even it hurts sometimes. In the real-world, there will be those who disagree with the students’ opinions, and insofar as institutions of higher education ought to prepare students for the real world, you ought to affirm the resolution.