Word: listening
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...reprehensible. Once again, therefore, we have to ask who will judge which individuals are capable enough to lose their right to speak, but most important, we must remember that free speech is more than a personal privilege of the speaker to be forfeited for bad behavior. Society, universities, and listeners also have legitimate interests in the free and open communications of ideas. No one has the right to decide for others which speakers are fit to be heard or which public discussions deserve to take place. If members of this community consider a speaker to be reprehensible, they can refuse...
...service than in the classroom and less latitude in the classroom than in a public speech or an open meeting. Regardless of the setting, however, sponsors of a meeting have discretion to enforce reasonable rules designed to make it easier for the speakers to speak and the audience to listen, provided the audience is warned in advance. Even if the sponsors have imposed no rules, expressions of disapproval begin to infringe on free speech when, they have the effect of either preventing the speakers from communicating their ideas effectively or of keeping the audience from hearing what is being said...
...message. Such communication is entitled to protection but only so long as it does not infringe unjustifiably on the rights of others. That point arises when the heckling and protests interfere with the speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen. This is simply another application of the principle that gave rise to the celebrated maxim: "Your freedom to swing your fist stops at the point of my nose." This principle does not deprive anyone of the right to communicate. If persons opposed to a speaker's policies wish to publicize that...
...finish the sentence) primarily to see the football game rather than to hear the band. In these circumstances, the University has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that the band observes some limits on the material it uses, and the audience has an interest in not having to listen--or have their children listen--to material that seems, by generally prevailing standards, offensive, lewd, or in grossly bad taste. It is Dean Epps' unenviable task to see to it that these legitimate interests are protected while giving as much latitude as possible to the creative impulses of the band...
...able to devote myself, I have only dreamed with the Tigers. Now they're finally answering these calls. Doing it for Detroit and for all the other s who have not been able to find something more substantive to occupy their time and thoughts in the city then to listen to a beat-up, retrospective, and fairly insignificant recording of this community, it's my moment...