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...suppress the free exchange of ideas at Harvard (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture,” Nov. 13). Free speech is meaningless if it only holds for the politically correct. As a concerned individual, Summers could have personally joined the protesters planning to boycott Paulin’s reading. By acting as president of the University, however, he exposes antidemocratic impulses inappropriate for a university president. For “Ayatollah” Summers to contact English department members about his concerns and then claim, as quoted in The Boston Globe, that...
Over the past few months, tensions on the University of Michigan campus have been growing as a result of actions taken by a group of more than 20 predominately minority student organizations, who have staged a boycott of The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper. Protests were sparked by the caption of “Buckwheat sings” under a picture of the mixed-race American Idol contestant Justin Guarini, which served as the final breaking point for the widening consensus that the Daily has overstepped the bounds of “simple errors” too many times...
Many otherwise liberal students may find themselves shaking their heads, not understanding why the boycotters would choose such a path of action instead of attempting to “integrate” into the newspaper and create change from within. Some have even gone so far as to call the boycotters’ activities “counterproductive” to their goals. This is like saying the Montgomery Civil Rights activists were going against their objectives by boycotting the bus system instead of having an open dialogue with the city. This hypothetical argument is as demeaning...
...real thing." "Each time someone buys a Mecca-Cola," says the entrepreneur who has taken orders for 1.5 million bottles of the drink in Europe, "they're saying to George Bush, and the war-criminal Sharon, we don't agree with your policies." Responding to calls for a boycott of U.S. products across the Middle East, French Muslim Tawfiq Mathlouthi has rolled out Mecca-Cola in outlets across France, Belgium and Germany just in time for Ramadan. In the wake of a CNN report, 5 million more provisional orders poured in from the Middle East. "The goal...
...Leary was a member of the U.S. Olympic rowing team that was gearing up for a medal attempt in Moscow. After tasting Olympic competition in 1976, she was eager for another opportunity. With shock and disbelief, the rowers learned of President Jimmy Carter’s decision to boycott the Games as protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Endeavors to persuade political officials not to punish the athletes proved useless—the closest O’Leary came to the 1980 Olympics was a satellite feed of the races underway without her boat...