Word: kent-brown
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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After the Duke Kent-Brown incident here last year, activists, under fire from the administration, and increasingly unpopular with students, realized that they were banging their heads against a wall. So they stopped...
...along aimlessly after the shanties disappeared over the summer. SASC members could do little more than respond to the various jibes that started to come from the community, the most pointed of which came from the campus's conservative community, which invited racists like South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to campus...
...University has issued a dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal assault on antiracist protestors, their message to racists is "play ball...
HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
Calero wanted to finish his speech. And during last year's Kent-Brown incident, the protestors presented no violent threat at all. Yet the administration closed down both of these speeches. This is a bizarre way to promote the freedom of speech which the Administration claims to value so highly...