It's good to have the First Amendment, but words on paper are not enough. Time and time again throughout history, free speech rights have been violated. If we sit back and leave the Bill of Rights up to the government, it'll be left for dead. But people have breathed life into the Bill of Rights throughout history. I hope the Second Wave movement will fail to quit, that they will organize to challenge all these lame university rules that say you need a permit to give speeches and pass out literature on campus.
Free speech needs less abstract admiration and more spirited usage.
It's like a muscle that needs to be worked-out. As with the physical body, so with the body politic. Use it or lose it. Copyright 1997 by the Iowa State Daily Publications Board. All rights reserved.