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...student who was present at Boylston Auditorium on April 2, who witnessed the sad trampling of all the principles of free and open debate, I was both angered and confused by the reactions in the pages of The Crimson; notably, Robert Katz's piece, "Not So Simple" and Joseph Crystal's response in your "From Our Readers" section...
...piece, "Not So Simple" is indicative of the confused nature of the argument, which can be summarized as "well, the protestors were wrong to try to keep these murderers from speaking, I guess." The matter, contrary to Mr. Katz's formulations, is really quite simple: the rowdies in Boylston Auditorium who threw glass and red paint at the speakers violated the central tenet of academic discourse, the free expression of all sides of an argument. On a matter as emotional and divisive as U.S. policy in Centra America there is simply no room for such attempts to squelch opposing viewpoints...
...suppression of civil liberties, especially the organs of the Church, which have voiced dissent over government policies, are objectively wrong and deserve approbation. It is precisely because of the spiking of these stories by such groups as the Committee on Central America (COCA) that I, for one, ventured to Boylston Auditorium to hear what those who oppose the Sandinista regime had to say. Mr. Crystal ends his letter on a note of high pomposity by saying, "I hear the objections: Where might [the protestors] argument take us tomorrow? To this I answer: What is happening today?" By this formulation...
Less than a week after protesters prevented Nicaraguan Contras from delivering a Boylston Hall speech, a government professor yesterday called on President Derek C. Bok to invite the revolutionaries back to Harvard and ensure them the opportunity to speak...
This is a university, a community composed of people dedicated to truth, freedom and knowledge. Incidents such as the one that occurred at Boylston Hall Wednesday have no place here, or anywhere where the freedom to think and speak is valued. It was a disgrace...