Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no question that Canaday Hall has maintenance problems. But these could easily be alleviated with some simple renovations. To raze and then rebuild Canaday, on the other hand, would be to destroy more than just its exterior "lameness." It would consitute a waste of time and money, and it would entail the destruction of the tradition, unity and morale that Canaday Hall has come to represent for many of its residents...
...mature and reasonable forum of intellectual discourse, one group deprives another of its voice, it would be ludicrous to claim that those suppressing speech have thereby made a meaningful contribution to the dialogue. On the contrary, speakers who, through their putative protests, gag their opponents, effectively destroy dialogue as seriously as book burners...
Thus the bill that Maryland is considering goes a little too far. The bill would make it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine or 60 days of imprisonment, to take "one or more newspapers with the intent to destroy the newspapers or prevent other individuals from reading the newspapers...
...ensure that protesters can still make use of the material against which they are protesting, the line on free paper confiscation must be drawn a little more leniently, allowing protesters to take or destroy at least one paper...
...with each additional paper that protesters destroy, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue that the "marginal protest value" of the destroyed newspapers outweighs the threat posed to free speech...