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Finally, no one disagrees that we must address the root causes of terrorism. However, American counterterrorism policy must not be a zero-sum game. We must pursue both objectives—addressing terrorism’s causes and protecting ourselves from threats already in motion??with utmost vigor. Obama’s decision to reauthorize the Patriot Act validates its crucial role as an integral element of this effort...
Though some Council members, such as Hayward, argued during the debate period that the UC should move on from the drama surrounding the presidential elections and direct its attention back to the “business of the council,” the censure motion??which requires a majority vote—passed 26-15-1 by secret ballot...
...broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” Expressing the fear that voting down so self-evidently reasonable a proposition would be embarrassing, my colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion??that is, to end discussion of it and to avoid a vote. They did so because the motion had arisen in the context of what many of my more silent colleagues regard as the widespread censorship of dissent about Israel-Palestine on campus and in the nearby bookstores...
Robert Darnton ’60, director of the University library, emphasized the motion??s importance in opening up Harvard’s resources...
...detractors. It is likely a good thing that most of the country has not found out that the Faculty spent two hours bickering over whether Harvard ought to explicitly support free speech or not. If the entire charade seems silly enough to those who are familiar with the motion??s political implications, it seems downright ludicrous for those looking in from the outside. Complicating the matter further was a convoluted knot of parliamentary procedure that left professors at the meeting unsure of what motions they were voting for in the first place. The end result, a pointless miasma...