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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaejz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points cT bigcgest threat to Lree speet cr cmOegE Cam-puses is not the occasional conserva- tive snerer getting shut a- s-ihate don. I i t bureaucratic apparatus that stifies the tree exvpression of ideas utsidc of '-cture lls: a bias reporting system (BRS). > Ever though BRSs have beenh harshly riticized In court, they are proliferating. A recent Speech First stu.rdy found that the share of cces implernenting BRSs hras double since iv ye years agm. lUltimately, elected state and federal reoresentatives need to decide whether they want coiieges to be piaces where ideas are ., ennrr rcei administrativelv. haniged freelv or where a certain orthodoxy is The tisi a. fret speec an coliege eamusesw burst into the publi a onsciousnscs talf a decade ago, when a nbEnhr of conservative l%t-3eaig speakers' lectures were disrupted. Such instan'es, however, have eeE feswr and further hetweer in t) e past few years doe tthe CflI lDai pan ic, B t thec threat to free speech has noi susded; it has become bather and more fomnll' entrenched. A recent poll found that more than Sn percent of stu- dents say they self-censor at Ieast part of the time.' And in another report, 6o percenii of \tUdents have at some point felt rheycaucrd't ex'press an opirion for fear of how studerts, professors, or cilege ad.ministratars mgt ['respond. Unfortuntelys 1 there's a structural reasn for that: Students' freelyv expressed opinins -aculd be picked up by t'eir university's bias r'porti'ng system (ERS) and ger them into trouble with coilege administrators A BR.S is a. formal system universitnes use no solicit, investigate, arid address reports of itas inciaents. What exactly ?S a bias incident? it's whatever the university says it is, The definition of toas stred by nmosr colleges am'd uiri~i tie5 ranges from anwranted or offensive speechp jIks, and +o: mert o sia media to anthing that exn:bits a bias against another individual This def- iieon is DOfean un4pecific and subjective lilowing adminisirators to solicit reports for ao iltitude of incidents while keceping studens on their toes, never honong what exactly could 'et th en reported. In fect, b- soinient has beern detned so broadly at many uniwnrsities- -s encoass even reguiar politia speeh thai CUtN ag-ans-t the politically carrecr irthodo xy Conmmon definirions in this vein include speech that is motivated by a bias against a person in parr beeaus a' atrhat p-rsOO's. ieiitical aftuiatio,. . or interaecruar perspct ve, as at the University of Mississipi and biased e pres- sioos that are 'based on.,..eceed poLitical ideas, as at Eastern Metanonite LUnitverity.4 (Emphsis added.) H-owvever bias incident is defined, BRiSs fre- quently comhine inmmense power with a lack of oversight or accountabilit-. Many BRSs can initiate

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