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Indeed, Granieri rejects the attitude taken by other campus activists--both liberal and conservative--who, he says, prefer provocation to reasoned discussion. When the Conservative Club invited South African Vice Counsel Duke Kent Brown to speak at Harvard three years ago, Granieri opposed the speech on the grounds that it was conceived less for its educational value than as a way to engage angry opponents. The speech ended in a shouting match and a blockade by some students, who were later charged with impeding the South African's freedom of speech...
McArthur declined to be interviewed for this article, and he has repeatedly refused to speak to The Crimson...
Breakfasts with each of the nine second-year class sections are arranged by the dean each year, say second-year students; but even then McArthur's diffidence and reluctance to speak in public sometimes counteracts his cursory efforts to establish direct communication with students...
...overturning the ROTC resolution, they were met by hundreds of students, eager to have their say in the controversial debate. The council voted to overturn the call for ROTC's return on the basis of unconstitutionality, but when Lee closed debate on another ROTC resolution before allowing anyone to speak, chaos ensued: the crowd began chanting and approaching the podium and a frazzled Lee adjourned the meeting...
Tarazi says the organization needs more American-trained people like himself who can "speak for the PLO in an accent that Americans can understand." He says the organization's representatives have done little to improve their image with Americans. "They wear dark glasses; they wear kaffiyehs," he says, referring to the traditional checkered scarf that is a mark of Palestinian identity...