Word: duked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student activists that blockaded South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown said yesterday they will file a complaint with the University requesting a full investigation of the Harvard police response to their action...
...representative of South African apartheid, we saw in it a moral imperative to respond by demonstrating the feeling of the Harvard community that support for apartheid is indefensible. As we discussed what action to take as a group, we deliberately committed ourselves to the principles of respecting Duke Kent-Brown's right of free speech. This principle was the guiding consideration and standared by which we formulated our plan. As we wrote in the letter of intent distributed at the time of the action, "we respect his right to speak here unimpeded. We collectively endorse the right of free speech...
...interesting twist in ideologies took place Tuesday night. The Conservative Club brought South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to Harvard to voice an alternative view that might otherwise not have been heard on campus. But Kent-Brown's speech was disrupted by campus protesters on a cue from a members of the Southern African Solidarity Committee who stood up in the middle of Kent-Brown's speech and announced that he was collecting money for the ANC. As soon as this announcement was made, protesters swarmed in from all sides and attempted not only to disrupt Kent-Brown...
While the University administration could have acted reasonably to protect the free-speech rights of both Duke Kent-Brown and the protesters, they chose instead, to act in a rash and violent manner, forcing the end of the talk and infringement on the rights of both parties...
...interview before his interupted speech, South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown said he was surprised at and mildly annoyed by the security precautions that surrounded his visit...