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...disrupters’ methods are particularly disheartening because HSF’s protest was such a victory for students’ freedom of speech at Harvard. There was much controversy surrounding the admissibility of a protest at the event, due to the group’s late registration and lack of college affiliation. Yet Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II were entirely reasonable with the HSF and fellow protestors; they allowed them the space to protest peacefully outside of the Science Center. We can only hope that Tuesday?...
...year, and even Saudi Arabia has held its first municipal elections. Around the world, people are casting off oppressive authoritarian regimes at an unprecedented rate. Could it be that the President Bush and the neoconservative cabal were, god forbid, right? Right about Iraq, right about the universal appeal of freedom and democracy, and right about the aggressive use of American might to pressure for democratic reforms...
...brutal autocratic regimes, which calcified established political regimes and stillborn reformist efforts. As a foreign policy, cynicism masquerading under the self-congratulatory name of “realism” doesn’t have the potential of Bush’s Wilson-esqe vision of freedom and democracy...
...around the country that are very troublesome, and that’s why going forward, it’s important for us to make a commitment as a nation, I’ve said this a number of times since the election. It’s important to promote freedom around the world. It’s also important to make sure that our democracy is working the way it’s supposed to work. There should never be any reason for any American to have an actual reason to doubt their vote. Unfortunately, they do today...
Although the media has revealed questionable practices of intelligence services over the past few months, there are more effective methods of raising awareness than those employed by students at the panel. The disdain for intellectual and political freedom being exhibited before the panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists...