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...disingenuous of Muhammad Kenyatta and BLSA to label the PLO representative's talk "a private teach-in on the Palestinian issue." For, as I and Prof. Patterson argued in our letter, at Harvard or any other university the norms of fairness and free speech mandate that a "teach-in" be an inclusive event, not an exclusive...
...that includes outside observers, but conduct the event in an exclusive, anti-free speech and anti-fairness manner. Indeed, the teach-in's moderator, Muhammad Kenyatta, implicity understood this gaping contradiction--albeit a bit late in the day--for he sought to circumvent it by ignoring the request of Prof. Alan Dershowitz and members of HJLSA for an explanation of how the moderator would handle a discussion period...
...that these fragile norms must always be treated sensitively and vigilantly defended. Blacks, Jews, Palestinians, and other victims of oppression must recognize their special stake in vigilant defense of fairness and free speech. That some Black students at Harvard Law School fail to recognize this is, as I and Prof. Patterson emphasized in our letter, tragic indeed...
Finally, we are fully in agreement with Prof. Alan Dershowitz's request to President Derek Bok and Harvard Law School officials that they immediately condemn and censure Muhammad Kenyatta and BALSA for their violation of the rules of fairness and free speech in our community. Martin Kilson Professor of Government Orlando Patterson Professor of Sociology
...number of respects. Professor Hoffmann is described as an unremitting pacifist despite the clear statement in his book Duties Beyond Borders that "while I am not a pacifist...I have a strong belief that no war is very often better than war." In his letter of 8 March Prof. Womack has already rebutted the "false accusations" that he organised the Grenada demonstration, but it appears that Mr. Lagon considers even speaking at such a meeting to be inconsistent with a faculty position. At a gathering outside of his normal academic responsibilities John Womack surely has a right to criticise President...