Word: affrontive
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Such selective enforcement is an obvious affront to any notions of freedom of expression. But even if they were fairly enforced, the rules prohibiting postering by unauthorized groups would be unacceptable. As the AALARM founders pointed out, student organizations cannot gain the administration's approval unless they have at least 10 members and two faculty advisors--including one tenured professor. What about a single person's ideas? Are they not entitled to an outlet? And what about groups so outlandish that faculty members refuse to associate with them? Should they, too, be silenced...
Each day brings a new 30-second affront to fairness. A picture of discredited Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis slowly dissolves into the face of Democratic Senator John Kerry in a spot for G.O.P. Senate challenger Jim Rappaport. A Jesse Helms ad in North Carolina lovingly replays in slow motion his Democratic Senate challenger Harvey Gantt mouthing the phrase "whether it's sex selection or whatever reason." Evidence that Gantt lied when he earlier denied that he favored abortion in such cases? Not quite. Gantt's words were snipped from a longer answer at a press conference restating his consistent...
...Kurds in the town of Halabja. Saddam kidnapped over 90 members of his own dissident family, and more than 20 have been executed. Saddam executed 600 members of a Shiite opposition group in 1984. To compare Saddam Hussein to the noble Saladin would be a gross affront to Islam. To fail to oppose him would be nothing short of criminal...
...campus Right an enormous favor. In the first place, this inexcusable abridgement of free speech exposed liberals on campus to charges of hypocrisy and intolerance of competing viewpoints--charges that are justified far too often. Any such attempt to interfere with the dissemination of Constitutionally protected speech is an affront not only to the victims of the theft, but to the values of academic freedom, free expression and liberal tolerance that all members of the Harvard community should uphold...
WHILE we welcome the staff position's thoughtfulness and consistency in upholding free speech, we object to its portrayal of the thefts as an "enormous favor" to the "campus Right." Rather than an issue of political popularity at Harvard, the squelching of ideas is a serious affront to everyone, not just an opportunity for conservatives to point fingers...