At this point in the life of a college freshman, they've been in school for 14 years. Over the course of these 14 years, freshmen have learned the Bill of Rights as if they learned to walk and the First Amendment as they learned to talk. The First Amendment was ingrained in a child from his first history lesson in fifth grade, to his fifth history lesson in ninth grade, and from his eighth grade to his senior year. In those eight years, a student has the First Amendment in their head to take to college and express themselves as they see fit and as they have been socialized to do so. According to Dinesh D'Souza, Stuart Taylor and Tim Robbins, free speech has been inhibited and eliminated by politics and political correctness and strongly fueled by society's need for preferential treatment. Early in Dinesh D'Souza's book Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, he provides countless examples of preferential treatment toward certain races, ethnicities, sexualities, and genders on college campuses and in the workforce. D'Souza focuses primarily on cases in which people have been denied what they believe they deserve, such as admission, a job, or a place in a fraternity/sorority. On page three of D'Souza's book, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, he explains the University of California by Berkeley's admission point: "Ernest Koenigsburg, a Berkeley economics professor... asks you to imagine a student applicant with a high school grade point average of 3.5 and a scholastic aptitude test score of 1200. “For a black student…the probability of admission to Berkeley is 100%.” if… the student is Asian-American… “The probability of admission is less than 5%.” Koenigsburg...is satisfied......middle sheet......Students, Archibald Epps, could have highlighted clear examples of hate speech and defamation, but he didn't.Freedom of speech. Affirmative action. These three things all have at least one key thing in common and that thing can be summed up like this: to you, reader ; to me the writer; and to anyone and everyone you talk to about these three things, they will have a different meaning, a different story, and a different reason why they are defined that way. The discussion cannot simply end with our stories, but begin with those stories and transcend into something new by exposing ourselves to different ideas and points of view that may or may not match our own. D'souza, Taylor, Robbins, and all the other authors mentioned in this article can help everyone grow in their own personal definitions of free speech, affirmative action, and political correctness.