Word: posterize
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Harvard has an obligation to prevent infringement of the rights of its students and student groups. The administration must make it clear that they are ready and willing to effectively punish anyone who defaces a poster or otherwise challenges an official student group’s freedom of speech. Students who do infringe upon the rights of their peers should face the Administrative Board. And because it is easy to vandalize a poster without being seen, the punishments students face when they are caught must be sufficient to effectively deter such an action...
...poster states “abortion is never the right choice for a woman.” I would beg to differ. Abortion is never an easy choice, but that is the only absolute that can be applied to it. When a woman is not ready for motherhood, it should not be forced on her. Despite what some may think, abortion is not birth control for the lazy playgirl. It is not something women plan to have repeatedly because they haven’t bothered to get a prescription for the pill. Any time that a woman considers abortion...
What bothers me is that HRL has taken a feminist idea, that women deserve better, and co-opted it to deny women rights. Harvard Right To Life has the right to poster what they wish, and as tempted as I have been, I have never defaced or torn down one of their posters. Free speech must extend to all. But since the poster doesn’t specifically state what exactly it is that women deserve better than, I will take this opportunity to complete the thought...
...front of the arrangement hung a large, black poster that advertised the group’s cause and presented a few statistics about abortion...
...response to the initial defacement of posters consisted of asking House Masters to send out e-mails which reminded students to “[respect] the rights of all student organizations to poster on campus...