Word: billett
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...position by Jamie Billett on Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's raucous claim that gays "undermine civilization" (Crimson, Oct. 22) is quaint but sadly mistaken...
...quaint because it is so wonderfully civil libertarian, fitting so snugly in the legalistic mainstream regarding freedom of speech issues. As such, Billett's position jibes well too with a very smart formulation of the civil libertarian position on free speech by my friend Prof. Henry Louis Gates that appeared in The New Republic (Sept...
Thus, like Prof. Gates, Jamie Billett asks us "not to attack Mansfield"--or his speech agency--but rather to attack the product he puts in the marketplace: his words, their veracity, etc. The speech-bearer and speech marketplace are neutral, and presumably of course systemically harmless. I beg to differ; both bearer and speech can be harmful...
...were to look at the news media...as a barometer of pressure that [Black] students face,... Black students are subject to significantly more.' ZAHEER R. ALI '94CrimsonJamie W. Billett...
...NIGHT EDITOR: IVAN ORANSKEY '94 WIRE EDITOR: JULIAN E. BARNES '93 FEATURE EDITOR: JOSHUA W. SHENK '93 STORY EDITORS: MARY LOUISE KELLY '93 JOE MATHEWS '95 IVAN ORANSKY '94 MAGGIE S. TUCKER '93 SPORTS EDITOR: JAY K. VARMA '93 EDITORIAL EDITOR: BETH L. PINSKER '93 PHOTO EDITORS: JAMIE W. BILLETT '95 BUSINESS EDITOR: HERBERT Y. POON...