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Citing vague wording and the possible threat to freedom of expression, Law School students criticized a proposed ban on "hate speech" during a public meeting yesterday...
More than 60 students attended the meeting in the Law school's Austin Hall. The ban is included in the official draft of suggested new sexual harassment guidelines for the Law School...
This section would prohibit any from of speech that constitutes harassment "by personal vilification." The section also would ban speech that stigmatizes through remarks or epithets which "unreasonably interfere" with another person's work or academic performance...
...addition, ten students stood up to showtheir support for the hate speech ban...
Meanwhile, legislators have expressed concern that female- genital mutilation is being practiced in the U.S. by immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. Though actual instances are rare, a bill to ban the procedure was introduced in the New York State legislature in early March. It mirrors efforts on the national level by Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder to outlaw such mutilation. Says she: "It's terribly important to do so if we're going to preach on this issue in the international community." Yet even as American feminists inveigh against the practice, African professional women in the U.S. decry these...