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Naturally, an undergraduate reviewer cannot be expected to possess the depth of knowledge necessary to recognize departures from convention every week and then to analyze them. They must restrict themselves to the honorable trade of college reviewers: helping readers decide how to spend the weekend. Pachter spends virtually all of his review relating (1) what Beckett plays are like to watch (i.e. unconventional, disturbing), and (2) how the actors were to watch He gives two scant sentences to the director's choices. He never hints at issues of staging or interpretation, such as the show's conformity with or departures...
...action pointed up once again the TV networks' anxiety to round off the sharp corners of public controversy. A professional grouch like Rooney cannot always restrict himself to restaurant receipts and faulty tools. As Fred Friendly, a former CBS News president who is director of the Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society, points out, "Andy's paid to be outrageous." Encouraged to be provocative, Rooney could hardly avoid occasionally uttering something imprudent or offensive to a portion of his audience. But against such excesses must be balanced his intent, which was hardly to ridicule, and his overall record, which...
...second and far more important objection to anti-harassment codes is that they are counterproductive. If the goal of these rules is to improve the educational environment for minorities, one should expand the amount of speech, not restrict it. Punishment of harassers does nothing to solve bigotry; it can only reinforce resentment. A university that muzzles bigots loses the opportunity it has to educate them. Repression of prejudiced sentiments allow bigots to graduate and become more influential bigots in the real world. Because of this lost opportunity, any restriction of speech is an abdication of a school's duty...
Although we are not suggesting that areas like Eastern Europe should be handicapped by growth in other previously ignored fields, the Harvard community cannot ignore the extent to which these academic decisions reflect certain social, racial and economic disparities in American society. Harvard should not restrict its efforts to building East Asian studies or German studies just because the people who have money are interested in these fields...
...University is the "free exchange of ideas." We vehemently disagree. Harvard exists primarily as a learning environment. What does anyone learn from a hateful epithet? Nothing. How is learning hurt when hate speech is protected? Such speech can alienate entire groups, compel them to leave and thus restrict the diversity of ideas expressed here...