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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prof. Dershowitz's statement, "We don't have to follow the courts," tends to reinforce the notion that private educational institutions are not subject to Constitutional restraints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dershowitz Ignores Legal Precedent | 4/5/1994 | See Source »

...vile, anti-Semitism of Khalid Abdul muhammad at Kean College, publication of "The Jewish Onslaught" by Wellesley Prof. Anthony Martin, and a media frenzy over Louis Farrakhan at UMass--Amherst has triggered another round of debate about academic freedom and offensive speech on campus. Some think "controversial" ideas should be censored. Others say they should be tolerated so long as all sides are heard. That's the idea embodied in Thomas Jefferson's classic exhortation to: "...tolerate error so long as truth is left free to combat...

Author: By Alex Walker, | Title: GUEST COMMENTARY | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

Reflecting on Prof. Shelby Steele's performance as a scholar last month at the Kennedy school of Government's ARCO Forum, prompts my protest against the sorry state of political discourse. There is plenty of toleration for error in an entertaining, "show-biz" format, but little tolerance or patience with truth. Steele, famous for one, thin, bestseller, "The Content of Our Character," said the difficulties of Blacks today result from "a failure to adjust to freedom" and repeatedly denounced policies like affirmative action as "preferences...

Author: By Alex Walker, | Title: GUEST COMMENTARY | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

With great dismay I read that I had filed a formal complaint of sexual harassment against Prof. Van der Merwe in Jonathan Axelrod and Jonathan Lewin's article "Allegations Divide Wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Complaint Field Against Archaeologist | 2/9/1994 | See Source »

Message received upon calling the office of Prof. Camille Paglia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. If you need to reach her, it's probably wise to follow these instructions closely. In her speech at the K-School Thursday night, Paglia explained that she was fired from Bennington College for getting into a "fistfight" at a disco party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SPEAK | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

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