Word: calero
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...students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...
Letters in The Crimson and the Law School Record have raised questions about the adequacy of precautions for Adolfo Calero's appearance at the Law School on October 2. This may have left an impression that Law School and University officials did not take seriously the need for security for this event. Accordingly, it may be helpful for me to review briefly some of the steps directed toward making it possible for Mr. Calero to deliver his address at the Law School. These included the following...
...School officials had met several times prior to the day of the speech with the police, HLS Republicans and with those who wished to protest Dr. Calero's views, to plan for various contingencies...
...that some of the decisions made and precautions taken before or during the event could have been improved upon. The steps we took did not prevent the frightening lunge at the speaker, although the deployment of the police did prevent a Tufts college undergraduate from reaching or harming Mr. Calero. Maybe more police officers deployed differently would have discouraged or prevented Mr. Laub's lunge, but I doubt it. Obviously Law School and University officials will draw on this experience the next time they face a similar situation...
Orenstein cites as a cause of unrest the fact that "...the University invites highly controversial speakers who provoke physical reactions--both violent and non-violent--in some people." Again, Orenstein implies that responsibility for an action lies with someone other than the initiator of that action. Calero enjoys no magical power to inspire violence in people--violence is a product of the individual. Responsibility for violence lies solely with its initiator...