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...Hart says that a perfect example of the need for civility in public debate is the controversy over last year’s English Oration by Zayed M. Yasin ’02, which was originally entitled “American Jihad...
Yasin’s speech, later re-titled “Of Faith and Citizenship” after numerous protests, attracted national media attention. Hart says, though, that he was particularly upset by the personal attacks made against Yasin by protestors who labeled him a terrorist...
...Hart continues, “I think everybody who heard Zayed’s speech thought it was a great speech...There was more smoke than fire...
Elements of this controversy recurred in more recent campus debates, Hart says, as students and professors conflated individuals with their ideas on issues like the war in Iraq and several heated debates over House open e-mail lists...
...speech, Hart says he does not expect it to transform his fellow graduates into more civil communicators...