It is often difficult to create a balance between constitutionally protected individual civil liberties - such as the rights to free speech and association - and the need to maintain order in society. To illustrate this, you are going to complete a simulation in which you will play two
often-conflicting roles. You are the Dean of Students at Prickly Pear College in Glendale CA but you have also been elected to the Glendale
City Council. Unexpectedly, the selection of Prickly Pear's new president threatens to erupt into a full-blown scandal involving both the town and the college. Using your authority as a college administrator and a member of the city council, how will you manage the potential crisis?
(The author of this simulation set it in a town & college in California.
However, keep in mind that were you playing the same roles in Texas, you would
face the judicial and constitutional dilemmas.)
To start the simulation, go to HATRED COMES TO GLENDALE. Click Enter. Then just follow the instructions as you work your way through the simulation. Occasionally it will take a page a few minutes to load, even with a fast connection, so be patient.
When you finish the simulation, you will come to a page titled Mission Completed. After listening to / reading your results, click Next. The next page - titled KHMC News Interview - asks you three questions about the situation, gives you space to type in your answers and offers to email your answers to me. I've tried that several times and am not convinced that your email will reach me if you use the simulation's email. So, instead of typing your answers to those three questions on the simulation page, I'd like you to type them into a regular email and send them to me as you normally do with your assignments. The three questions are as follows.
You hold a unique position as both dean of students and city councilor. How did your responses to the protests differ in your two different roles?
What are some tools you used, or could have used, to protect public safety while also maintaining respect for civil liberties?
Some people believe that hate groups such as KILL should be banned. Do you agree or disagree with that statement? Why?
In your answers, demonstrate your familiarity with the concepts in the simulation and with the material in your course, and use correct spelling and grammar.
By the deadline shown in the Course Schedule on the main page of the syllabus:
Send me your answers to the three questions above in the body of a new email to dramyglenn@earthlink.net.
Put only your name and Activity #4 at the beginning of your email.
Be careful to use the correct subject line.
Late answers will lose one point per day late, including weekends and holidays
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