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Harkin enters the ballroom to the cheers ofunion members and the flashes of pocket cameras,shakes hands, waves, sits down to dinner. Theunion leader goes to the podium and starts theintroduction just as the Chicken Kiev is beingserved. This is bad timing, because Harkin willstart speaking to the clinking of silverware,people will stop eating out of politeness, and thechicken and potatoes will grow cold and be leftuneaten...
Then, citing Jeffries' belittlement of the Holocaust, Held called for members of each of the protesting groups to come to the podium. Each representative read the name of a concentration camp site and saidhis or her organization remembered the camp...
Even in light of the BSA's commitment to representing a variety of student viewpoints and bringing to our campus recognized authorities on race and culture, this invitation is deeply hurtful and divisive. By offering a Harvard podium to an avowed anti-Semite and a man whose race pride is built on hatred of others, the BSA is condoning a potent form of prejudice...
...responsibility to make choices about whose speech or what speech we wish to sanction, I urge the Black Students Association to reconsider their invitation to Leonard Jeffries. Refusing Jeffries a forum on campus would not deny his right to openly articulate his beliefs, but offering him a Harvard podium will lend his hate speech a degree of credibility that threatens every individual who has suffered discrimination...
Spike Lee pulled a piece of gum from his mouth and deposited it somewhere behind the podium. Then he began to speak, in slow, measured tones...