Word: ugliest
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Things weren't quite so overt at that first executive board meeting, but Prabhu says people tossed the words "darlin'" and "honey" around. Prabhu says she now heard these terms as slurs. People also accused her of being a radical feminist. "Somehow," she says, "those became the ugliest words that you could toss at any woman...
...life and career of John F. Kennedy '40--and so I know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation of what is supposed to be the bedrock rule of membership in an academic community: a commitment to civil discourse. And I also think that there is no moral difference between those who `simply' call for someone's murder and those who do the actual killing: the former's hands...
There is no need to prohibit with sanctions even the ugliest of words. After all, they are just words. And selfcensorship and discretion normally prevent most intelligent students from uttering hateful words. When they do not, these students usually suffer rebuke and loss of respect from others. In an intellectual environment, perhaps more than anywhere else, an enormous amount of faith must be placed in people's ability to from the free marketplace of ideas and words. The alternative of censorship is ultimately far more sinister and dangerous words that might be spoken in a university without speech codes...
Saving the Ugliest for Last...
Will they get it? Tune in next time for an update from (we've said it before, and we'll say it again) New England's ugliest city...