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...Harvard, postering is a major vehicle of expression for campus organizations; in fact, for many it is their only outlet. We approve of the College's policies which prohibit, subject to severe punishment, the destruction or removal of a poster or posters from College bulletin boards and kiosks. This rule is all that protects the integrity of postering and insures that groups with something to say still be heard...
Moreover, we oppose current Harvard regulations which restrict postering to official student organizations or groups of a certain size that ask for special permission, and our standing policy is to poster for any Harvard students who do not have the administration's permission to do so in their own name...
...particular case, a Harvard student, Joshua Oppenheimer '96, has admitted pulling down an AALARM poster, and AALARM has insisted that he be punished. If this is true, his actions were wrong...
Oppenheimer (apparently to buttress his dubious claim that he had "participated in a debate") claimed that he and Wasinger exchanged words before Oppenheimer tore down the poster (apparently unaware of Wasinger's presence as a representative of AALARM) before Wasinger approached him. The Crimson reporter also failed to report that Oppenheimer made a call to Wasinger late that night, threatening him personally with "retaliation" if Wasinger and AALARM pursued his case with the administration. This, apparently, is the kind of "non-violent, non-affrontive [sic] debate" that Oppenheimer and his fellows on the BGLSA are interested in--the frantic effort...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...