Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS WEDNESDAY, Harvard students will once again have to decide how strongly they believe in freedom of speech. And if past history offers any clue, they will decide that freedom of speech exists at Harvard only if the speaker is saying something they agree with...
This fall, the Law School Forum was forced to relocate a speech by mayor of Philadelphia Wilson Goode after soot-covered Cambridge youths rolled on the ground and--in a non-too-subtle protest of Goode's bombing of a radical group's headquarters--called the mayor a Nazi murderer...
...practices. But if Harvard students want to maintain possession of the moral high ground they earn by protesting such villainous characters, they will have to make sure that their protests do not get out of hand. In an open community it is simply unacceptable to curtail the freedom of speech of any speaker, unless he is trying to incite violence through his remarks...
...COORS tell his side of what Conservative Club posters mislabel "The Coors Controversy." We should make sure he realizes that we don't believe anything he says, but we can do it without disrupting the speech itself and without limiting his freedom to move about this campus. We can do it without discouraging future speakers from coming...
...campus protests the Coors speech with restraint, Harvard not only will declare its opposition to racism and antiunionism, but also will prove its support for the right of every individual to speak without fear of intimidation...