Word: cancels
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...censorship and censure (the free expression of moral disapproval). What the campuses are trying to do (at least those with state money) is use the force of government to contain freedom of speech. What Donald Wildmon, the free-lance moralist from Tupelo, Miss., does when he gets Pepsi to cancel its Madonna ad is censure the ad by calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic custodian of the First Amendment, says, "I would hate to see boycotts outlawed. Think what that would do to Cesar Chavez...
However, Mandery's most trying experience as chair came when the council was working to put on a concert. Evan had to tell a concert promoter that he would have to cancel an appearance by Chuck Berry because the Harvard student who struck the concert deal had not been authorized by the council...
Seton Hall basketball coach P. J. Carlesimo had been scheduled as the banquet's guest speaker, but was forced to cancel in order to purse contract negotiations at the University of Kentucky, an offer he declined on Monday...
Many students, teachers and parents praised the diversity of the school as one of its strongest points, saying that was reason enough to cancel the proposed cuts...
Striedter says he told the two students who were planning senior bars in private rooms that they could either cancel the parties or move to public rooms, where tutors and a Beverage Authorization Team (BAT) would be present...