Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STEREO is drowning out your efforts to finish that moral reasoning paper due tomorrow, your head is spinning and your patience exhausted. You decide to speak to the offending roommate, but what will you say if your initial plea for silence is disregarded...
...like to remind individual students that they must speak to their individual masters about having parties in thenormal way," Epps said...
...answers to these questions lie in appreciating time-honored protest tactics by those who wish to offer alternative views. Just as Duke Kent-Brown has the right to speak, the Black Students Association has the right to heckle, even though heckling makes speaking more difficult. And when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee blocked two of three exists to the Science Center auditorium, ideally forcing Kent-Brown to exit past demonstrators in the Science Center courtyard, they made movement difficult but by no means impossible. As long as protesters respect the peaceful limitations inherent to civil disobedience, their actions...
Administrators currently hope through discipline that they will make an example of the SASC blockaders and thereby prevent future blockades, a passive strategy. In fact, a more active, and a generally accepted alternative would be for police to guarantee a visitor's right to speak on the scene. When provocative, controversial individuals wish to spout their views on campus, the University must execute a strategy that accepts the inevitability of protest action while assuring rights of free speech. Reacting with surprise, dismay and confusion after the fact accomplishes little. Acting on the spot with purpose and respect for everyone...
Duke Kent-Brown is neither the first nor the last person subject to action by protesters while visiting Harvard. He and others like him should have their right to speak protected. But in guaranteeing that right, the administration must not ignore the option of students to demonstrate their opposition by civil disobedience. Instead, police and other officials should take it upon themselves to assure that a speech reaches its proper conclusion, even if such assurances require negotiation with or removal of demonstrators on the scene. Instead of adopting a defensive, defeatist attitude, officials should enforce freedoms of speech and movement...