Word: speech
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...interesting twist in ideologies took place Tuesday night. The Conservative Club brought South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to Harvard to voice an alternative view that might otherwise not have been heard on campus. But Kent-Brown's speech was disrupted by campus protesters on a cue from a members of the Southern African Solidarity Committee who stood up in the middle of Kent-Brown's speech and announced that he was collecting money for the ANC. As soon as this announcement was made, protesters swarmed in from all sides and attempted not only to disrupt Kent-Brown...
...clear that the University planned to respond to any group movement in the room by whisking Kent-Brown out and ending the speech, without any attention to evaluating the nature or intent of the action. That they gave no attention to the actual magnitude of the "threat," that they in fact did not perceive the simple action of sitting in front of the doors as a hazard, is evidenced by the utter lack of attention to the group at the left door. Had the nature of our action been considered hazardous or dangerous, the group at the left door would...
Harvard seems to have adopted a policy that makes it impossible for members of the community to respond to objectionable speakers with acts of non-violent civil disobedience, even when such acts are carefully designed and executed so as to pose no threat to the free speech of others. The University has an obligation to defend the rights to free speech not only of Mr. Kent-Brown but also of those who oppose his views. In this case they did neither. In order to develop a policy that would accomplish these ends, Harvard must decide not to act rashly...
While the University administration could have acted reasonably to protect the free-speech rights of both Duke Kent-Brown and the protesters, they chose instead, to act in a rash and violent manner, forcing the end of the talk and infringement on the rights of both parties...
...freedom of speech is considered a liberal principle, than it appears that the Conservative Club is embracing a liberal ideology in its desire to allow Kent-Brown to speak, while campus leftists, lost in all of their self-righteousness, appear to be embracing an almost racist ideology--an ideology that discriminates against and denies basic human rights to a man based on his status as a white South African...