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...typical UC fashion, Petersen attempted to supplement his own shortcomings with a blustery speech. To defy publicly the administration on its most prominent occasion may have required a level of courage—but only enough to conceal barely the fumbling and foibles of the Petersen-Sundquist administration...
...This massively lopsided vote demonstrates the truth of then-President Derek C. Bok’s 1984 observation: “Americans give overwhelming support to free speech as an abstract proposition but quickly change their minds when they encounter concrete cases involving the expression of unpopular ideas.” Even as they voted to end a reasoned debate before even half of the professors with raised hands had been allowed to speak, 74 bearers of Ph.D.s and similar degrees failed to notice that they were themselves engaged in an exemplary suppression of free speech. Perhaps they even thought...
...this or any other case, a sufficient ethic for the University. Some expression—such as deliberate threats, lies, and libel—should under most circumstances be forbidden. However, it would be difficult for university scholars to agree on any type of speech that should be forbidden under all circumstances. What is clear is that it is the University’s preeminent mission not to foster every kind of expression but to foster a specific style and range of communication—based upon systematic investigation, scrupulously logical analysis, respect for reasoned and evidence-based dissent...
...alleged innocence of white Americans’ treatment of Native Americans, about our black students’ allegedly being the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and about the allegedly bestial and masochistic qualities of the Palestinian people. And the exponents of such opinions continue to enjoy free speech and the cooperation of their colleagues. Yet dissenting opinions about Israel-Palestine are confined to back-corridor whispers...
...Sundquist-Petersen administration stood idly by as the UC’s influence over student social life evaporated. The College Events Board completely displaced the UC’s former incompetence in planning college-wide events. Ryan A. Petersen ’08 embarrassed us all with his speech, which pretended to speak on behalf of the student body, at Drew Faust’s installation—a barefaced attempt to deceive students with the tough-talking that his administration neglected to provide in the off-stage negotiations with University Hall. They uselessly watched as the College?...