Word: censor
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Fenster’s freedom to write what he pleases isn’t so extraordinary in the view of nonchalant Oxfordians. If the Oxford Student is any indication, the British don’t seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break...
...Hunting for Hate Speech”, Jan. 15) mischaracterizes the views and recent initiatives of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA). Smith lambastes “opponents” of Gladden J. Pappin ’04 for trying to censor Pappin, but then plays fast and loose with the exact identity of these opponents, potentially leading the reader to believe that the BGLTSA may advocate such censorship. This implication is simply false. The BGLTSA has not gone on record to ask that Pappin retract his statements, nor have we criticized The Crimson for printing...
Refusing to engage Gladden Pappin’s so-called argument about our own immorality was a political, measured decision on the part of the BGLTSA. We neither wish to censor Pappin nor to indulge him with a rebuttal that would be both fruitless and demeaning. We’d much rather conserve our energy for an evolving agenda of visibility and advocacy in the new semester and beyond...
...Hazelwood decision, the majority wrote, “First Amendment rights of students in the public schools are not automatically coextensive with the rights of adults in other settings.” The 1988 ruling gave high school principals the power to censor school papers, effectively eliminating freedom of the press in American public high schools...
...dissent in the Hazelwood decision, Justice William J. Brennan criticized educators who censor, calling them poor teachers and even worse citizens. “Such unthinking contempt for individual rights is intolerable from any state official,” he wrote. “It is particularly insidious from one to whom the public entrusts the task of inculcating in its youth an appreciation for the cherished democratic liberties that our Constitution guarantees...