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...purpose of the contest “is to spark the entrepreneurial spirit,” said Rosa P. Wu ’03, director of last year’s contest and current Harvard Student Agencies vice president. “It does not give enough money to fund any of the projects, but it gets out the word that being an entrepreneur is an option at Harvard...
Illingworth wrote in an e-mail that other College and athletic department administrators said they were concerned that Outkast’s “language may not be acceptable for many audiences, and also that, reportedly, Rosa Parks once sued the group...
...find most kids expect me to be six, most grown-ups expect me to be Rosa Parks. I fall somewhere in between,” said Bridges...
Indeed, had Illingworth taken the time to look up the Rosa Parks lawsuit he would have found that the judgement in the case contradicts the very argument he was trying to make to the HCC. In the course of rejecting Parks’ claims against OutKast, the judgement heavily endorses the First Amendment right to free expression stating, “It is fundamental that courts may not muffle expression by passing judgement on its skill or clumsiness, its sensitivity or coarseness, nor whether it pains or pleases.” The same claim can, and should, be made about...
...choice, they continuously questioned whether there was sufficient demand to sell out the Bright Hockey Arena, despite polling showing that OutKast was the clear favorite among students. Then they began questioning the acceptability of OutKast’s lyrics based upon second-hand internet content and rumors about the Rosa Parks case. It thus seems clear to me that administrators’ reservations were based solely on their bias against hip hop music and their assumption that bringing a group like OutKast would be more likely to raise safety concerns for students and physical concerns for the arena...