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...ZSCHAU (R-CA) Prof...
Since your article "Law Prof Lauds Student Blockade" (May 1) identifies Assistant Professor of Law Randall Kennedy as a member of the Board of Director of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM), the state-wide affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), I find it necessary to make it clear that not only wasn't Prof. Kennedy talking on behalf of CLUM or ACLU, but his reported position is diametrically opposed to our long-held policy on the free speech rights of even the most unpopular speakers...
...Prof. Kennedy offered his view that there can come a point where a speaker's views are so abhorrent or "beyond the pale" that private citizens have or should have the legal right to interrupt such speech and thereby prevent its dissemination. His position, in short, was that one may and even should decide whether or not to allow a particular speech by examining the content of that speech. Prof. Kennedy was referring, in particular, to student efforts to interfere with a speech given by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown...
...CLUM Board of Directors consists of 40 members. They are not in unanimous agreement with every single policy of the organization, particularly policies on the cutting edge of civil liberties theory and practice, or policies having consderable political or economic content. Prof. Kennedy has told me that he recognizes that his view on this aspect of First Amendment law differs sharply from that of CLUM/ACLU--a point which he says he made clear during his speech, but which your reporter failed to note. While it is rare for a Director of our organization to disagree so sharply with so fundamental...
...ARTHUR MILLER IS THE DEAN OF American playwrighting, and Tennessee Williams is the professor Emeritus, and Sam Shepard is the radical prof with the cowboy boots and the hash pipe, and Neil Simon the humanities lecturer with perfectly organized presentations and polished anecdotes, then Christopher Durang '71 is the weird kid in the back of the classroom with the odd possessed look...