Word: speaker
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More than 40 black students walked out of a symposium on race sponsored by the conservative magazine Peninsula last night after one speaker called sexual liberation the primary cause of the breakdown of some Black families and used the word "Negro" 15 times...
Cornell professor of International StudiesBenedict Anderson, the next speaker, said theIndonesians now recognize that "the gamble thatwas taken in 1975 has failed...
...final speaker, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky,criticized the U.S. government by quoting DanielP. Moynihan, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. atthe time of the 1975 invasion of East Timor...
...against women, Take Back the Night has always, in the words of one now-departed campus commentator, amounted to "a militant feminist yahoo festival." And, despite claims of ideological neutrality this year, Take Back the Night has offered for all comers a fortnight of feminist reeducation. (1992's keynote speaker and slideshow performer was National Endowment for the Arts poster-womyn Karen Finley, perhaps best known for adorning herself with chocolate and alfalfa sprouts, as well as "...yams ...candies...tinsel...
...articles in The Crimson mentioning any such protests exist. No Hillel "protest" of Foundation support for Noam Chomsky ever took place. As I member of the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee, I once asked a Foundation staff member about whether and why the Foundation had supported a political speaker, especially since the SAC, which distributes grant money, had never discussed or approved it. I did not "protest," not did I speak on behalf of Hillel. My question was about the political nature of Chomsky's talk, not about who brought him and why. As a general member...