Word: blsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Law Students Association (BLSA) has charged that the poose and the Law School administration acted irresponsibly in the incident...
...have met with [the two students] and with representatives of BLSA and the Law School is seeking better ways of dealing with such situations in the future." Upton wrote in the Adviser letter...
...heckled and interrupted in Sanders Theater and could finish his speech only with difficulty. In 1983, members of the audience interfered with another speech by alternately booing and cheering a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization who had been invited to speak by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). Last April, the moderator at a panel arranged by the BLSA did not recognize Jewish law students who wished to question a speaker representing the PLO. In universities elsewhere, several controversial figures have been severely heckled; others have actually been prevented from speaking; still others have had to withdraw from speaking...
...wonder how the BLSA might feel if a white student group invited a representative from the KKK to speak at Harvard? And how would it feel if in the third consecutive year of the KKK visit, Black students were invited only to observe and not to participate in a KKK "teach-in"? The point here is not to draw an exact analogy between the KKK and the PLO, but to underscore the importance of fairness and freedom of speech in the context of a controversial and emotionally-charged issue...
Persuant to the BLSA's feeling it is "sensitive to Jewish concerns", we would like to offer a suggestion. If the BLSA decides to invite a representative from the PLO to speak again at Harvard, we urge its members to sit down with members of the HJLSA to discuss a format that will avoid potential acrimony and will encourage open discussion...