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Two important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict. That was University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney's lament this April when a group of Penn students, citing an offensive editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and trashed 14,000 copies of the college newspaper.
Hackney's statement, it seemed, crystallized the difficulties many national universities--including Harvard--are having as they struggle with newfound heterogeneity and its backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error...
Many Harvard students graduating today have found clashes involving free speech and diversity to be among the most intense and hurtful experiences they have had at college. From Bridget L. Kerrigan's Confederate flag to Leonard Jeffries, from Ice T to Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and Colin L. Powell...
While speaking, Hicks supporters at first failed to notice Rudenstine walking by and pausing momentarily to stare at the group with a puzzled expression.
Because not only does Hackney have a distorted view of free expression--he also has awful judgment, and little sense of consequences. The Penn president didn't realize that in condemning Jacobowitz to a drawn-out pretrial period, he would incur the ravenous attention of the national media, and the...