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While saying that racial, sexual, or "intensepersonal" harassment can be punished under presentrules, the report says that "hard choicesregarding appropriate time, place, and mannershould have a presumption favoring free speech."
"We didn't react well to the pressure. We shottoo quickly," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said."That's what the trap is designed to do. You'renot going to be able to run a set of play whenpeople are double-teaming you. You have to get theball reversed, take the...
The 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.
The report also avoids laying out specific rules for free speech conflicts that may arise in informal settings, such as racist material displayed on t-shirts or written on a banner.
"It was deliberately left that way," saidProfessor of Government Joseph S. Nye, who chairedthe faculty free speech committee. "The feelingwas that it is not wise to try to legislate thehard cases in advance."