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This desire to supress more liberal influences could be seen in the effort to convince Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist and the president of the Rockfeller Foundation, to drop out of the running for the presidency of the Overseers earlier this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

This desire to supress more liberal influences could be seen in the effort to convince Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist and the president of the Rockfeller Foundation, to drop out of the running for the presidency of the Overseers earlier this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intolerance of Opinions | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Silber sends undercover photographers to student protests to take pictures, keeps files on student leaders, and twice during the 1970s called in the Boston Tactical Police Force to supress student protests...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Your Guest is as Good as Mine | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

...Kevin Malisani attacks Harvard's free speech policy and proposes an ideological test for the provision of Harvard police protection to visiting speakers. He would deny police protection to any speaker whom he or a majority of students finds provocative, inflammatory or offensive, or whom anyone hates enough to supress through violence. In an astonishing moral inversion, Mr. Malisani complains that unpopular speakers "provoke other to riot" by peacefully expressing ideas which their opponents violently suppress. His proposal would allow private thought-vigilantes to suppress precisely thsoe ideas which free speech is primarily intended to protect, those which challenge...

Author: By Alan D. Viard, | Title: Free Speech | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

MANY ANTI-SEMITES see themselves as the victims of a sinister and well-coordinated Jewish conspiracy. Kahane, who ironically bears the title of rabbi, also shares this delusion. He claims that "liberal Jewish McCarthyites" plot to supress his views, which are anti-democratic and, many believe, racist. For his visit to Cambridge, therefore, Kahane sought to manufacture local villains. And although he was unsuccessful in getting Harvard or Hillel, the Jewish student center, to oblige by suppressing his speech, Kahane used the material at hand to unleash his standard litany of accusations and threats. The Crimson found his claims newsworthy...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: News, But Worthy? | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

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