Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RIDICULOUS to look at Harvard as a place for moral leadership in the fight against racism. Why did the administration, the campus cops and the Conservative Club all line up to defend Hoppenstein...
...their position and that others have the right to engage in similar yet opposed activities. I suspect, however, that most of those students involved in the incident do not have that decency and do not consider toleration one of the basic principles which a democratic society is designed to defend...
...that means that it is provocative for a student organization to invite any person whose views some may find repellent. I disagree with the policies of the Reagan administration, I think the Soviet Union is an "evil empire", and I strongly disapprove of the PLO but I will forever defend the right of Caspar Weinberger, a Soviet diploma or a PLO spokesman to speak on this campus I might protest their presence peacefully but will not interfere with their entry into or exit from the University, or the presentation itself, when I--as a member of a student organization--expect...
...does not bother me that Jeff Rosen, in his defense of the Harvard College Forum (April 29), shows a little intransigence in the face of some good constructive criticism by Harry M. Browne (April 25). In many circumstances an editor can defend a position, and still absorb worthy criticism for the next issue. What I find sad is the lack of understanding of scholarship and intellectual discourse that shows through Jeff Rosen's defense...
...baleful eye for "life-styles." The result is a deftly improvised confusion in which the suburbs become the stage for fragments of Elizabethan comedy, bits of Wodehouse farce and a generalized send-up of The Great Gatsby. There is even a climactic courtroom scene in which Teeters must defend himself against charges of smut peddling. Unfortunately, he has arrived in Merrymount one beat behind the conservative backlash and cannot convince a jury that his cassettes are the visual equivalent...