Describe the atmosphere at the University of Utah regarding political and ideological expression. Additionally, discuss how free speech is valued or not valued by the university community.
The U of U is such a shit hole. You can't even identify as liberal if you aren't a PC crusader anymore, they won't let you. The gender studies, psychology and student affairs departments are so aggressively pursuing this ideology there isn't space to contest it even from a classically liberal standpoint. Free speech is just not really a value. The president may say it is but in practice professors are telling minorities to report anything they don't like it and micro aggressions are defined by the person taking offense...so you're fucked, you can't say anything.