Word: speaker
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...selection of General Colin L. Powell as principal Commencement Day speaker this year is a discouraging demonstration that Harvard lacks the moral backbone to support official policy with action...
Powell's support for discrimination against gays and lesbians makes him a morally unacceptable choice for Commencement speaker...
...issue is not whether Powell has the right to support the ban on homosexuals in the military. He does. Nor is the issue whether the University had the right to invite him to speak here. It did. But the issue is whether Harvard should have selected a speaker whose defense of discrimination directly contradicts the University's official support for equal opportunity...
...course Harvard has no obligation--moral or otherwise--to invite a speaker whose views are consistent with University policy. Additionally, it is probably impossible to find a speaker whose opinions do not offend some part of the Harvard community. Legitimate differences in opinion should not prevent a person from speaking at Commencement...
John A Frazier '95, co-chair of the undergraduate Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Society, criticized the University administration yesterday, saying it could have chosen a more appropriate speaker...