Word: freespeech
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...realized this week that it had the power to formulate its own editorial policies (Ha ha, Crimson editorial page). so her goes. On the campus front, we're in favor of Radcliffe, freespeech, mandatory no-exercise regimes and leaving Cambridge. We're not in favor of clubs of any kind, facial hair (with all due respect to MF's horendous mutton-chop/Brussel-sprout combo), self-righteousness and radiation experiments. Nationally: yes for health care, Al Gore, and Michael Jordan's new career move; no on guns, the insanity defense and toxic corpses. Internationally: two thumbs up for Lena Olin, Tiger...
...also appalled that the reactionaries oncampus tend to be the big defenders of freespeech. I think it's a lot of hypocrisy. A lot ofthem wouldn't defend free speech unless it wasdirected at them and unless they were the victimsof censorship. At any given time at a universitythere are only going to be a few handfuls ofpeople who genuinely believe in neutral freespeech for everybody. Mostly, as Nat Hentoff putit so well in the title of his book, its FreeSpeech for Me--Not for Thee...
...starting point for any discussion of freespeech at Harvard must be a strong commitment tofree speech and the pursuit of truth," Sandelsaid
Mansfield has spoken out against what he seesas the threat to free speech from "politicalcorrectness." He is a member of the NationalAssociation of Scholars, a group which has foughtagainst speech codes and generally favored freespeech over sensitivity concerns...
...interview with The Crimson last night,Dershowitz called Kennedy's memo "unconscionable"and "irresponsible" and said the professor'saction could have a "chilling effect" on freespeech at the Law School...