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Your articles and editorials regarding the conference, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections," have spawned an important discussion of the basic issue of free speech at the University. I am writing to correct the record concerning our decision not to approve the request to hold the conference at the Divinity School and, moreover, to affirm the School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University...
Ironically, neither the issue of free speech nor the potential controversy of this conference ever entered into our decision. Following the mid-September request for the use of our space, Associate Dean Timothy Cross spoke with Nancy Murray, conference organizer, who provided routine information regarding the purpose of the event, date, time, size of the anticipated audience, etc. She also offered her judgment, unsolicited, that the conference was likely to be controversial and felt that we would probably need to discuss a security presence beyond our normal levels...
...appeal signed by the official Free German Youth movement and representatives of the democratic opposition voiced fears about "the very existence of our country" in the wake of the massive westward stream of visitors...
Even if the Wall is stripped of political significance, it still serves a purpose by applying a brake to refugee traffic. An East German official predicts that once free travel wipes out border barriers, about 1.5 million of the country's 16.6 million citizens might head West. Without the Wall, West Berlin will bear the brunt of that great rush. But West Berlin's workers already resent the city's shortages of jobs and housing and the heavy concentration of alien guest workers from Turkey and ethnic Germans from the East bloc. Ironically, unless the burden of a new influx...
McCormack's big brother, Scott--who is actually a bit smaller than his 6-ft., 1-in., 195-1b. "little" brother--is hoping his senior season will be injury-free. Scott has suffered fom collarbone and wrist injuries the past two years and has yet to play in an NCAA playoff game...