Students Unswayed by Free Speech Debate

2 March 2016
Sean Walker

Before a nearly full auditorium at the Yale Repertory Theater Tuesday night, the NPR show ‘Intelligence Squared U.S. / Open to Debate’hosted a debate on the motion that free speech is threatened on college campuses. But despite the robust turnout, most students’ opinions on the topic remained largely unchanged, with students stating that many of the arguments advanced at the debate were ideas they had already heard last fall.