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THE FINENESS OF A LINE, Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote, should not deter us from trying to draw it. So while it is not always an easy task to distinguish vandalism from free expression, harassment from free speech, a community concerned with the rights of its members must try to...
EXAMINATION of this reasoning shows how far we have gotten away from the original ideal of the university as a truth-seeking community rather than simply a collection of truth-seeking individuals. From the point of view of the isolated individual, it may seem inconsistent to punish his "self-expression...
Some forms of "self-expression," however, have a negative impact on the community that is quite apart from the effect of the ideas expressed: for example, defacement of property, violation of the professional relationship between lecturer and students, and death threats meant to abrogate freedom of the press.
This is where freedoms of speech and opinion pass over into freedoms of self-expression and action, and that is where the line must be drawn. By not drawing it, those who think they are defending free speech are actually defending nothing more elevated than an egotistical bigot's will...
Both Yale and City College miss the distinction between speech and self expression.