Word: listenability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardest-working people on the council by your rash comments, and even more importantly, colored the vision of outside students about what WILL be the most important and accessible committee this semester. In light of my goals, I wish to conclude by proclaiming my personal sincerity and willingness to listen to ALL STUDENTS (even you, Hillary) who have suggestions about how to amend, improve, or recreate student government at Harvard. Marc McKay Reevaluation Committee member
...member will intimidate those less bold than Mansfield (most everybody) and lead to an insidious self-censorship. No student, faculty member or administrator should feel repressed on the basis of vague and flexible standards of "offensiveness." Free speech must be paramount, for free speech gives us the ability to listen to arguments on both sides, to engage in and encourage real debate. The stifling of unpopular opinions or analyses harms out community and hampers our education. As Mansfield himself said, "The University is about the search for truth. Our motto is Veritas. It isn't about feeling good...
...interview with The Crimson earlier this month, Ali called for students to "exercise their freedom of speech...and refute [Mansfields'] statement." He's exactly right. After Jeffries' and Muhammad's speeches, students talked and wrote extensively. At the time of Jeffries' speech--exercising their right not to listen...
When Albert S. Colman '94 stands up in the dining hall, claps his silverware against a salad bowl and announces the latest intramural competition, people in Leverett House listen...
Many other audience members, however, urged the questioners to sit down and listen better to Hadi and Sharoni...