Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger's speech November 18 in Memorial Hall, he was repeatedly interupted by hecklers protesting the Reagan Administration's military policy in Central America. Although Weinberger was able to finish his speech, he was forced to repeat himself several times and some members of the audience said the were unable to hear him because of the heckling...
...actual news was not as bad as the reports suggested. It almost never is where Harvard is concerned, given the propensity of the media to turn events here into mega trends. It is true that a small band of determined speech-wreckers succeeded in drowning Weinberger out at times, clearly abridging his right to free speech. But the vast majority of students in attendance restricted the cheering or booing to within legitimate bounds of self-expression...
...Weinberger incident was an isolated act would be disingenuous. Writing in 1972 of the effect of student radicals here, Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson asserted that Harvard was no longer high on the list of institutions in which "free and uninhibited discussion was possible." The spectre of speech disruptions which troubled Wilson is not as relevant today as the worriers would have us believe...
...attack on open debate come only from outside the ivory tower. In the past year-and-a-half, bands of hecklers have threatened the free speech not only of Weinberger, but also of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and a representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Muhammed Kenyatta, a Black student leader at the Law School, conversely abridged the rights of participants at a talk by a P.L.O. member when he refused to recognize Jewish members of the audience during the question-and-answer period...
...fundamental principle of any policy towards issues of free speech and academic freedom must be constancy. If a university--and Harvard in particular--stands for something, it must be, as officials have for so long pontificated, for a commitment to utter openness and freedom of thought and inquiry. Thus far, however, Harvard's response to these varied attacks on free inquiry and expression have been mixed...