Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This week the Law School, responding to the disruptions of speeches--including the October 1987 attack on former Contra leader Adolfo Calero by a Tufts student--introduces free speech guidelines for all controversial speeches...
Harvard, the mayor explains, often gets a free ride from the city. Most of the University's vast land holdings in Cambridge are exempt from municipal taxes. Even with its large voluntary payment in lieu of taxes, Harvard pays the city less than a private landowner would...
...Derek earns more respect than warmth and affection," O'Brien says. "I've never quite worked around anyone who was as free of gossip. Personalities were never something that fascinated him, as they almost always are in a university...
...eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...
...journalist closed by saying that a free press is important but unless it is handled responsibly it is useless: "Democracy is the power to choose and journalism is a mockery without info...