Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard really wanted to defend free speech, it would have allowed police to arrest the students who blocked South Africa Consul General Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, just as protesters have been booked at colleges and consulates around the country. Ironically, although officials argue that the May 2 incident should be treated internally, the students involved would receive more due process before a real court...
Hoping to quell this mounting unease, Reagan met last Tuesday in Washington with Honduran President Robert Suazo Cordova. After two sessions and lunch, the two leaders emerged on the White House lawn, where Reagan pledged to defend Honduras "against Communist aggression." Suazo said that Honduras had "received security guarantees from the United States." Despite the reassuring words, no new agreements were actually signed...
...would Harvard be asking students to take time out from their summer jobs and plans to come back to Cambridge to defend themselves at their hearings...
Students accused of violating the RRR may defend themselves in person before the CRR, which can administer any College punishment, except for dismissal or expulsion, which require Faculty approval...
...Lowell House Junior Common Room would undoubtedly have received more due process had they been arrested on the spot then they are likely to receive from a body that has virtually no experience in handling civil and uncivil disobedience. But the University did not have the guts to defend free speech at Harvard by arresting the students, just as police have arrested activists at colleges and South African consulates around the country...