November 6, 1998

Freedom of Speech for Professors Is 'an Axiom of Academic Life'

To the Editor:

I find the idea of speech codes offensive in principle, and the notion that more restrictions on expression should apply in universities than in society at large is doubly so ("U. of Wisconsin Considers Proposal to Ease Limits on Faculty Speech," October 2). The university is historically a place where debate and controversial expression are privileged, not curbed, and speech that is legally

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