Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years at least, unpopular views have rarely been expressed by Harvard students. It is worth considering whether this silence is because very few happen to hold these views or because those who do have been made to feel that they are not free to express those views. In The Shadow University, their new book about civil liberties on America's university campuses, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate examine the effects of campus speech codes--which some universities have adopted in the name of protecting designated groups. They conclude that these policies have had a stifling effect on free...
...Handbook for Students offers no specific governing regulations for such cases. Though a Harvard student's unpopular speech will never incur a disciplinary response, Epps (in an interview) and former Harvard President Derek C. Bok (in a speech) have acknowledged that offensive speech might prompt an informal response on the part of an administrator...
...certain matters with greater significance than free expression, though it is unclear what these matters might be. Despite these ambiguities, so far it seems that Harvard's speech policies haven't been particularly problematic. The more salient question at Harvard may be how students, not administrators, respond to unpopular speech. Kors and Silverglate describe instances at other schools in which student publications have been stolen from campus distribution centers by students who disagreed with the views expressed in them...
...Harvard be a place more deeply committed to free expression? First, the Faculty should consider clarifying the principle that students professing unpopular views will not be subject to informal persuasion by administrators that may have an inhibiting effect on student expression...
...believes what he believes, to hell with it if it's unpopular or not what he should be doing," said David A. Hopkins '99. "He's calling the shots, and you don't often see that...