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...mail urging Harvard students to maintain “free expression?? on campus hit students’ inboxes earlier this week—but with no indication of the motivation behind the message...
...expression.” But cancelling class does in fact mean stifling her students’ views and depriving them of an environment for productive classroom discourse. Accusing her students of a misdeed for which she herself is responsible —“intolerance of freedom of expression??—is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. And her willingness to take her grievances to court poses a dangerous precedent. To use classroom dialogue as grounds for litigation threatens to chill free discourse within the classroom, stifling the intellectual exchange that...
...Angels in America” author Tony Kushner opened the Tanner Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should pardon the expression??Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction...
While H Bomb received praise—Julia T. Havard ’11 said that it was “artistic expression?? with “a message behind it”—some of those present feared that Diamond would be less like H Bomb and more like mainstream pornography...
...Hence the principle of “free speech” is not, in this or any other case, a sufficient ethic for the University. Some expression??such as deliberate threats, lies, and libel—should under most circumstances be forbidden. However, it would be difficult for university scholars to agree on any type of speech that should be forbidden under all circumstances. What is clear is that it is the University’s preeminent mission not to foster every kind of expression but to foster a specific style and range of communication—based...