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...Kevin Malisani...
...March 9 article, Kevin Malisani attacks Harvard's free speech policy and proposes an ideological test for the provision of Harvard police protection to visiting speakers. He would deny police protection to any speaker whom he or a majority of students finds provocative, inflammatory or offensive, or whom anyone hates enough to supress through violence. In an astonishing moral inversion, Mr. Malisani complains that unpopular speakers "provoke other to riot" by peacefully expressing ideas which their opponents violently suppress. His proposal would allow private thought-vigilantes to suppress precisely thsoe ideas which free speech is primarily intended to protect, those...
...Malisani is saying that the same individuals who can freely speak at other college campuses are not welcome at Harvard. Mr. Coors' speaking at Boston University is free speech; his speaking at Harvard is "Provocative...
...Malisani accuses the Club of providing "massive" security, including ROTC members, to "provoke the crowd." First of all, the Conservative Club has never hired anyone to perform security at our events. No ROTC students were involved in the Coors event...
...Malisani complains about the cost of security at these events. It is interesting that Malisani never complained about the cost of security for the shanties set up by the South African Solidarity Committee last spring. Harvard set up a 24 hour armed guard for the shanties, at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars. Shouldn't we pay a couple of hundred dollars to insure free speech as well...