Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only did Lee not pursue the facts himself, he didn't even give anyone else the opportunity. Although Lee called for someone to speak in favor of an amendment that would withhold the council's endorsement of ROTC until it abandoned its anti-gay bias, he allowed a speaker opposed to the amendment to use all of the time allotted for debate. "I should have told him that he was out of order...I wasn't listening," said Lee. "Clearly it was an error on my part...
...council's rules initiated a frenzied attempt to disrupt the council's business. Members of groups such as the Society for Creative Action abandoned an effective set of rules when the rules no longer served the group's motives. No more than 20 students, chanting "let her speak," impaired (temporarily) a processs which had served them, along with the rest of the Harvard community, extremely well. They must know that their motives do not justify their methods, and even a member such as myself, who has actively supported their cause, loses much faith in them as a legitimate representation...
...trying to influence the South Africangovernment, Horner says an institution has to askitself, "'Why are you doing it' and 'Who are youtrying to speak to?'" Rather than merely making ablanket political statement through fulldivestment, Horner says universities "must educateby what we do, and not what we rant and raveabout...
This commentary does not represent the views of the Navy or its ROTC program. Nor do I claim to speak for any other ROTC student. These are my own personal opinions. Each ROTC student has his or her own opinion of the events of the last few days. As members of an open, reflective university community, all faculty, students and staff have a responsibility to avoid stereotyping. One of the most terrifying things I have seen this week is broad-brush categorization of both student activists and students enrolled in ROTC programs. That should stop right...
...Four and the emergence of Deng. Says Fang Lizhi: "At the time of Premier Zhou's death, the people liked him, but they thought of him as a good dictator. The people were still Marxists then." By contrast, continues Fang, who welcomes the transition, the people no longer speak of Marxism, and when | they venerate a man like Hu Yaobang, they are paying homage to him not as a benign dictator but as a symbol of reform...