Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farber's comments came before an audience of 30 in a speech sponsored by Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), entitled "Are We the Dupes of the NutraSweet Company? The Politics and Chemistry of Artificial Sweetners...
...There's no magic in any exercise," she tells her students. "The magic is in your awareness, so that when you're off during your speech you feel it and can correct...
...this pattern that has to end. A forum conducted by the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard last week brought together administrators, campus leaders and other students for one of the first constructive discussions of the state of free speech on campus. The forum revealed that students on both the left and right believe the University should take firm action. The administration's failure to define appropriate standards for protesting speeches, virtually everyone agreed, has contributed to an atmosphere of uncertainty in which some eminent speakers must wonder what kind of receptions they will receive...
This has done nothing more than exacerbate the situation, allowing both groups to blame each other and the administration for trying to restrict free speech at Harvard, and allowing the administration to dismiss student concerns as immature and uninformed. This vicious circle can only be broken through a change in the basic university policy...
...wishy-washy response to those who engage in acts of civil disobedience. Those who violate clear standards of respect for speakers and listeners--standards which the University should promptly spell out--should be arrested. Finally, the university no longer should try to punish the students by closing down a speech, unless the speaker himself is unwilling to continue...