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...they all come out against divestment. Why? Bok defends the university's assets as "resources essential to the accomplishment of a vital public mission." What could that mission be that it does not include the eradication of racial discrimination? Bok's live and let live arguments about freedom of speech and the importance of the University's neutrality in preserving its independence all ignore the particulars of the issue at hand. When Bok suggests that "We cannot expect individuals and organization to respect our right to speak and write and choose our members as we think best if we insist...
President Bok's recent "Open Letter on Free Speech" deserves a reply since it has nothing to do with the question of Free speech. In fact, the only real democratic question posed here is Harvard's threat to students' legitimate exercise of their rights to protest. Bok's letter is aimed at squelching potential student protest against the presence on campus of such mass murderers as Secretary of War Weinberger '38 and Presidents' Botha of South Africa. Bok says students should sit quickly and listen politely to these butchers and then--maybe--ask few questions at the end. This comes...
While the Harvard administration would welcome. Weinberger. Botha and Hitler with open arms in the name of "free speech" the rest of us are muzzled. Left-wing and minority faculty are routinely purged ("denied tenure") and even Ec 10's "radical sections" were evaporated. Meanwhile, Bok's underling Dean Epps does his bit for "free speech" by censoring the Harvard Hand's halftime shows. Preventing the Greatful Dead from performing on campus, and threatening two SYI ers with expulsion for participating in the protest of Weinberger. The simple statement "Behold, our butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate...
Like their big brothers in Washington, the Harvard administration doesn't care at all about "free speech." They try to crush students who mobilize against the architects of an anticommunist bloodbath in Central America because when they look at EI Salvador and Nicaragua, they see the possibility of the Russian Revolution happening all over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership...
...speech at the Law School last night, Archbishop of Boston Bernard F. Law '53 reaffirmed the Church's role in American society in light of recent debate over the Church's alleged intrusion into American politics...