M. Alison Kibler is Professor of American Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She has taught "Rights and Representations", a seminar for first year students, focusing on the tension between free speech and equality in American law and politics, for fifteen years. In this article, Kibler writes that she had recently wondered about her class becoming stale, but recent civil rights protests on college campuses across the country revealed that the seminar was becoming more relevent than ever before. This article describes a new class assignment Kibler designed for the class to make the First Ammendment principles more immediately relevant to students' experience on campus. Ultimately, the assignment framed discussions about two campus speech controversies and prompted a revision of the "College Life Manual."