Word: columbia
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What do we do in response? One option is to follow the example of the Columbia student protesters and close ranks on our opponents. Certainly we Harvard liberals could use a lesson or two in civil disobedience; when Connerly spoke here in April, more noise was made about predictably insensitive comments by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in introducing the regent than about Connerly himself. But would preventing the airing of prevailing conservative ideology do any good? If we are already in a minority, why further alienate the majority...
Rejecting those with whom we disagree might only set back our cause. At Columbia, when the conservative conference participants were barred from the campus, they relocated on Saturday to nearby Morningside Park, where they proceeded to gave their speeches outdoors. What symbolism! Forget the fact that affirmative action may be quite popular in Morningside Heights; the fact is, the liberals drove the conservatives off their sacred space and out into the public domain. The liberals secured the ivory tower for themselves and left the city--and the masses--to the conservatives. When they most needed to be convincing the people...
...must let our opponents speak everywhere, but all the more so on college campuses. The debate over affirmative action is not going to be won or lost inside the ARCO Forum or Columbia's Faculty House; it is going to be won where the people are and where they make up their minds on political issues. Saving affirmative action will not take more academic discourse; it will take massive public relations effort--a smart television ad campaign with a healthy bankroll and a popular spokesperson would be a start...
Liberals, however, are not the only ones who need to let people speak unfettered on college campuses. Also pushing the panic button last week were officials at New Jersey's private, Catholic-affiliated Seton Hall University. On Thursday, the day before the Columbia confrontation, Seton Hall announced that Governor Christine Todd Whitman would be prohibited from receiving a public service award on the campus due to her support for a woman's right to choose. "No public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission," said Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall...
...first-years and their older counterparts will soon have some further indications about the season, as they meet defending Ivy champion Brown on Friday and pesky Columbia on Sunday...