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February 2, 1983--More than 90 students attend the first lecture of the coalition-sponsored alternative civil rights class, which brings minority law professors to Harvard to give weekly lectures. At the biweekly faculty meeting the same day, Cecil McNab, co-chairman of the coalition, and several other coalition members make a short presentation, in which they criticize the lack of student power at the Law School...
...defy self-righteous students such as Cecil McNab to sit still and expouse "academic freedom" when a KKK member comes to deliver a speech at the Law School in which he calls Blacks "inferior" or in some way brings back the most pernicious racial slander perpetrated by pseudo-Darwinists at the beginning of this century. Mr. McNab's view represents, quite simply, the most blatant of double standards. Is his understanding of free speech that we must listen to such virulence as Rahman's in silence? Would he condemn the Falwell "hecklers" or those who protest at ACSR meetings...
...filming of Cecil Andrews' tragic act of self-destruction [March 21] shows that people like to see others get hurt. Consider the excess of violence on television and in films. While TV-news leaders condemned the judgment of WHMA's news director, the major networks all showed portions of the tape that recorded a man setting himself on fire. The networks cannot resist satisfying the public's grisly appetite...
...caller was Cecil Andrews, 37, an unemployed roofer and day laborer who had a history of instability. On the night he telephoned his threat or plea to WHMA, he was staggering drunk. Andrews was apparently near the Jacksonville square (actually, a green rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area...
...people who watched a woman being raped last week, and the cameramen who watched Cecil Andrews burn himself, were not mere inactive bystanders. They were audiences. Social conditioning may explain people's fear of getting involved. But something about last week's events defies explanation...