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...power, it must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party’s presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention, and should work as energetically to defend the consumer and the workingman from their corporate predators as to protect the vitality of American industry. Democrats who respond to the “mandate” of the 1980 election by scurrying to the right will probably find their jobs taken from them by identical-looking Republican challengers...
While we make no judgments on the content of Finkelstein’s speech or the “Elena” posters, it is important to defend the right of individuals on a university campus to speak without fear of malicious attacks, censorship, or unconstructive interruptions. This University is not well served when some try to silence debate. Rather, it is through substantial debate that new and different ideas can be expressed, and the community can learn as a whole...
...midst of the controversy, Gomes rushed back from his sabbatical in England to defend the Foundation at a March Faculty meeting...
...Given our experiences at Harvard, we could not help but be shocked when speakers espousing politically unpopular causes were shouted down and were not allowed to be heard. They attempted to express their ideas in the very same forum where we worked so hard and risked so much to defend the principle that Harvard has nothing to fear from the expression of unpopular ideas. We recognize that the relationship between administration and faculty and undergraduates has changed since that time, and that is probably a good thing. But we wish that the fundamental right to be heard, to have one?...
...Updike spoke I looked from him to the crowd, and the scene was evocative of something I couldn't quite place. Then, as he came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...