Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Resolution ... states, "the University places special emphasis ... upon certain values which are essential to its nature as an academic community. Among these are freedom of speech ..., freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement." Especially in the incident at Lowell House there can be no doubt that serious violations of these freedoms occurred...
...height of student Vietnam War protests, Harvard in 1969 created the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) to discipline students violating the faculty's resolution upholding individual freedoms and obligations, like freedom of speech and movement...
More recently, the student group has turned its attentions to educating people about the dangers of AIDS. Earlier this month, the Conservative Club sponsored a speech by Paul Cameron, a Nebraska psychologist and self-professed authority on the disease. Asserting that "more people on this campus will die from homosexuality than anything else short of thermonuclear war," Cameron called for an immediate quarantine of all gays, prostitutes, and intravenous drug users whose blood carries the virus linked to AIDS...
...speech was part of a series entitled "What I Teach and Why," co-sponsored by the Cambridge Forum and The Harvard Crimson...
...Kahane is an individual whose right to free speech has been [removed] for political consideratons. I do not believe the State Department has this right under present law," said Slotnick...