Word: harass
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...only fellow undergraduates who harass and intimidate. Many students charge universities with "institutional racism" for failing to recruit more minority faculty members, broaden the curriculum and show more sensitivity on race issues. At Trinity College last May, a campus guard entered the university's computer room. Of the 40 students in the room, just one was black. For no apparent reason, the guard singled out the black student and asked for his ID card. "For blacks, it's an alien environment," says Eric Dixon, a broadcasting student at the University of Texas. "The school incubates segregation. It can't control...
...them was that you could not leave the union. Armenia is on the border of Turkey, our historic enemy. That fact did not allow us to think about secession. But in the past two years, we have had a crisis of faith in Moscow as the Azerbaijanis continue to harass us. Our appeals to the center were answered with formal notes, requests for calm and rationality. They should have said, 'Let's figure out a compromise between Armenians, Azerbaijanis and the federation.' If the union does not defend the people of Nagorno-Karabakh ((an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan)) against violence...
...least of which is that it lacks finesse as a public relations maneuver. Telling people that Judaism sanctions oppression is not the way to defeat anti-Semitism, nor is it the way to bolster Congressional support for aid to Israel. Interpreting Judaism as a theology that says Jews can harass non-Jews whenever they want is also foolhardy, as non-Jews outnumber Jews by a ratio of roughly...
...anti-harassment code, in other words, is protection of the free exchange of diverse ideas for the purpose of learning from them. The staff position agrees with this assertion, in part, by admitting that private harassment is clearly prohibited by the constitution. Yet the staff position ignores that public speech can harass in as injurious a fashion as private speech. Imagine rallies in the Yard calling for a certain group to leave. Imagine students wearing t-shirt bearing racial epithets...
Overly aggressive or dangerous panhandlers, however, will not automatically enjoy legal protection. "Judge Sand's ruling doesn't say a beggar can corner people or abuse them," explained Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi. "The First Amendment protects only the right to ask, not the right to harass." In fact, several days after his ruling, Judge Sand modified the decision to allow the MTA to regulate panhandling more selectively by banning solicitations on moving subway cars and near token booths...