Word: speech
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Coming at a time when many universities are grappling with how to protect free speech while respecting the rights of minorities, Harvard's rules will go before the full FAS in February for almost certain approval...
...guidelines contain a philosophical preamble which carves out an expansive interpretation of free speech on campus. But the bulk of the 12-page report describes rules for formal speaking events which are designed to allow speakers to talk while protecting a certain degree of audience protest...
...free speech report was prompted by the disruption of two campus speaking events in 1987, after which some administrators said they feared that controversial speakers would avoid engagements at Harvard...
...Free speech is uniquely important to the University because we are a community committed to reason and rational discourse," the report reads. "Free interchange of ideas is vital for our primary function of discovering and disseminating ideas through research, teaching and learning...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence re-affirmed Harvard's absolute commitment to free speech in the classroom in 1988, after Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom was accused of giving racially insensitive lectures in a Core class...