Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several members of the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League came before the Undergraduate Council last March, complaining that they had been unfairly disciplined for interrupting a speech by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger...
...only did the council, the College's elected link between students and administration, agree to hear their complaints, they went ahead and issued a 118-page report on free speech, citing other examples of students heckling campus visitors and outlining a policy for future disruptions...
Some say this commitment to thoroughness will insure the council's survival; the fact that administrators avidly read the free speech report is proof that they respect the council's judgement enough to listen to its recommendations on future issues. However, some say this same thoroughness may ultimtely alienate the council's undergraduate constituents, who are getting the impression that the council acts too slowly or that it is bogged down it bureaucracy...
...council can point to an impressive record of accomplishments this year; reports have been issued on such issues as free speech, the freshman housing lottery, freshman academic advising, teaching fellows, history course offerings and the ACSR. These reports should inspire actual policy changes next year...
...College, for example, will take into consideration the free speech report, which stressed a speaker's right to appear without interruption in future incidents. Final clubs will also receive special scrutiny next year as a result of discussions by council representatives to the student-faculty Committee on College Life. The clubs will have until October to decide whether to adopt the College's non-discrimination clause and admit women--or face the severing of College ties to the clubs, such as access to alumni lists and the centrex phone service...