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There is another, more practical, reason for not implementing a campus speech code: in every instance when such codes have been challenged in court, they have been struck down for being overly broad, containing ambiguous and vague guidelines, or for attempting to modify hateful behavior by suppressing speech. In the significant 1989 Doe v. University of Michigan case, for instance, the Court, in finding against the University’s speech code, commented that, “If there is any star fixed in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall...
...trip was the vision of Tufts University Professor of Chinese James Wang, who was struck by the idea of ballroom dancing as a medium for cultural exchange. Wang, who helps with the ballroom team at Tufts, said he was most impressed with the dynamic of Harvard’s team...
...Crisis struck again for the congregation in 1999, when the seminary tried to sell the chapel property again—and proposed a sale to a developer who planned an 11-story, 50-unit apartment building which would use the chapel as a lobby...
...another assignment in New Guinea, Weller was struck over the head by a tribesman who stole one of his notebooks—containing eight months of research. Weller brought the tribesman to court but only received monetary compensation worth the price of the notebook...
...when the first contact with Tikopia, by helicopter, discovered that all of the islanders had survived by sheltering in mountain caves. Regional leaders criticized the Solomon Islands government for its slow response to the calamity. The first relief boat was due to arrive a week after the cyclone had struck. VENEZUELA Street Fight At least two people were shot to death and dozens injured as fighting erupted in the capital, Caracas, between supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chávez. The violence broke out when tens of thousands of protesters at an antigovernment demonstration marched to an army barracks...