Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must let our opponents speak everywhere, but all the more so on college campuses. The debate over affirmative action is not going to be won or lost inside the ARCO Forum or Columbia's Faculty House; it is going to be won where the people are and where they make up their minds on political issues. Saving affirmative action will not take more academic discourse; it will take massive public relations effort--a smart television ad campaign with a healthy bankroll and a popular spokesperson would be a start...
Liberals, however, are not the only ones who need to let people speak unfettered on college campuses. Also pushing the panic button last week were officials at New Jersey's private, Catholic-affiliated Seton Hall University. On Thursday, the day before the Columbia confrontation, Seton Hall announced that Governor Christine Todd Whitman would be prohibited from receiving a public service award on the campus due to her support for a woman's right to choose. "No public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission," said Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall...
RAZA is Harvard's Mexican-American/Chicano/Latino student group. The group's Latino Political Committee (LPC) invited the writers, who have been touring campuses across the country, to speak about their recently published book, Gonzales & Rodriguez: Uncut and Uncensored...
...think it was really nice that they came to speak to us because they are heavily involved in Chicano activism," Campos said. "They don't write from an ideological stance, but rather from the front lines. As columnists, they are really dealing with issues that face Chicanos today, like Proposition...
Despite the cramped conditions and the technical flaws of the secondary broadcast, the Italian architect's one-and-a-half-hour speech went over well with the audience. Introduced as the "romantic architect," to contrast with Meier's classical leanings, Piano lived up to his billing by choosing to speak about his concern for "lightness" and fluidity. Although he did not mention his forthcoming plans for the Harvard museums, and instead spoke only about other recently opened projects, the palpable sense of excitement at architecture's possibilities demonstrated that Harvard's own museums are in good hands...