Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council got final approval from a faculty committee for sweeping changes in the University's policy for protecting free speech. These measures for improving the protection of free speech on campus will be considered by the full faculty this fall...
...bureaucrat who serves at the pleasure of a dozen bosses, Delors can be short-tempered and occasionally imperious. During one memorable speech last year, he accused a British representative on the 16-member European Commission of being "a lackey of the Labour Party" and referred indelicately to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl as "fat-assed." His blithe contention that eventually E.C. officials would preside over 80% of the national economic and social decision making now conducted by individual countries infuriated Britain's Margaret Thatcher. So does his next major goal: replacing each nation's currency with a unified European monetary...
Stanford University was rocked by controversy earlier this year over that most basic of academic issues: what speech should always remain protected and what is so offensive that it can be stopped. After a sit-in on the president's office and various disciplinary penalties, the issue has yet to be resolved...
...effort to avoid a replay of the recent Stanford controversy, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this year will debate a set of regulations designed to spell out the boundaries of free speech on campus...
...faculty committee, headed by Dillon Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye, produced the guidelines, acting largely along the lines of rules drafted in an Undergraduate Council report on free speech...