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...administration’s demands.While the UC’s resistance gained students a few extra weeks of alcohol reimbursements at parties, its struggle came at a great cost. The trust between the UC and faculty and administrators, which is so central to the UC’s mission, was breached. As UC executives, their involvement in the enormous miscalculation in judgment concerning the party fund is alarming. Relations between the UC and College administrators were only worsened by Petersen’s fiery speech at University President Drew G. Faust’s installation, which alienated many...
...deliberate threats, lies, and libel—should under most circumstances be forbidden. However, it would be difficult for university scholars to agree on any type of speech that should be forbidden under all circumstances. What is clear is that it is the University’s preeminent mission not to foster every kind of expression but to foster a specific style and range of communication—based upon systematic investigation, scrupulously logical analysis, respect for reasoned and evidence-based dissent, and avoidance of ad hominem attacks in the resolution of disagreements...
...administration, too nice to fight for students needs, and too incompetent to achieve any significant change over the course of the last year. With Roy and Nick at the helm, the UC will steer a new course for the campus. They embody a leadership that views its mission, but not itself, as important; one that has the credibility and understanding of campus social life to set the tone for the debate; and one that will speak frankly, work diligently, and act responsibly to guarantee that this campus...
...such as the substantial discourse that surrounded Emerson’s speech to the graduating class of Harvard’s Divinity School on July 15, 1838. As Gura incisively observes, “Emerson’s most radical proposition...was his interpretation of Christ’s mission.” Even more absorbing, however, is Gura’s account of the intellectual “brouhaha” that followed Emerson’s address, which the author describes as “a studied insult to the assembled clergy” that...
...It’s a departure from some of its recent pieces, but it’s not a departure at all from its historic mission,” Cannon says of the move to more topical articles...