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...Monday night of orientation week, right after Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 spoke about intellectual morality 34 million Americans tuned in to watch Murphy Brown become an unwed mother. The television character faced an accidental pregnancy and a non-commital father. Her decision to have the child was haded as a maternal act of courage...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...
Furthermore, we would remind Jewett of the precedent established by an 1985 Ad Board case, in which freshman Samuel Burke was placed on disciplinary probation, even after having offered a public apology to the group which he had offended. His crime? To have removed a "reserved-HRGLSA" (now the more "inclusive" BGLSA) sign from a table in the crowded Union. Burke was prosecuted mercilessly by the college administration for his apparently unforgivable (although inadvertent and certainly "casual") crime against one of the "in" groups. We need not remind the administration of the not-unforeseeable consequences of its zealotry...
...Dean Jewett 's partisan response to this latest infraction makes it clear where his own affections lie and casts serious question on his ability to impartially administer the rules of the College where a group such as the BGLSA is concerned. Is a group's right to free speech and the protection of the University dependent on its status as a "politically correct" organization? Can students threaten, deface, and assail without fear of University action so long as their target is an unpopular group such as AALARM...
Friday the topics branched out into non-academic subjects, Jewett said...