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...completely agree that “listening and engaging in productive debate?? with someone who holds different political views from one’s own is a very useful activity. However, I do not believe that allowing Robert McNamara to speak in 1966 or John McCain just last week would provide such an experience...
...finding ways to make immigration crueler, but on finding ways to help develop the countries where widespread poverty leaves individuals with few choices but risking illegal immigration to the U.S. Although the idea of aiding poorer nations in Latin America has not weighed heavily in the immigration debate??and is not explicitly endorsed by the May-Day coalition—we hope that it is an idea that marchers will consider and support in the future...
...unequivocally, infringing on that right. However extreme one may find HRL’s views, it does not excuse the curtailment of a right of speech. While there is some truth to student sentiment that HRL’s campaign tends toward a sensationalizing of the abortion debate??and HRL would perhaps serve its purpose better if it did not alienate more centrist students in the way this campaign is likely to—these posters are hardly beyond the pale for a University that prides itself on the open exchange of diverse ideas. Students should have enough...
...understand” and that he failed to anticipate “the way that certain kinds of speculations would be taken.” But Summers did not back away from his controversial remarks completely. He emphasized the need for “the most vigorous possible debate?? in discussing gender issues and said that both popular and unpopular viewpoints must have an opportunity to be vetted. Summers also stressed the need to ensure that employers are “fishing in the largest possible lake” when they are looking for women leaders...
Predictably, Summers’ resignation has inspired an avalanche of misinformed editorials, sensationalist radio and television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate??on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty...