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...would agree that the answer is "Yes." In certain instances, it is clearly inappropriate for Harvard to accommodate every possible viewpoint. Possible examples are when a speaker professes racial hatred, when the premise of the discussion is unfounded or irrelevant, or when the sponsors of the debate want to hold it at Harvard to lend credibility to their own political agenda, not to enlighten or instruct...
...example of the last case is "Apartheid's Arc," a forum on Israel and South Africa that a group of pro-Palestinian activists planned to hold at the Divinity School. After Divinity School Dean Ronald Thiemann correctly rejected the organizers' request to hold the conference on campus, the conference was moved to another location...
...support Thiemann's decision regardless of what one thinks of the topic. Supporters of Israel might point out that Israel is a democracy where citizens of all races vote and hold office, while South Africa is a tyranny of a white minority over the Black majority. Some might also note that Israel has given extensive technological and agricultural assistance to Black-African countries, or even that several Arab countries have strong economic ties to South Africa...
...scheduled to meet with Gorbachev on Wednesday morning and hold a news conference in the afternoon before leaving the Soviet capital, ADN said...
...that administrators should allow every group to hold a conference on campus. Harvard should not lend its limited resources to a speaker whose theories have absolutely no basis in fact. Likewise, administrators should not feel compelled to publicize an irrelevant topic. And Harvard should not accommodate speakers who espouse doctrines such as race-hatred...