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...became Covenant House's acting president after Ritter was suspended by his religious order while it investigated the allegations of sexual misconduct, also quit. One explanation for his departure was that Ritter urged the board of directors to seek a nun or priest as his permanent replacement and appoint his longtime deputy James Harnett, a layman, as interim head. With the group's credibility compromised, the loan revelations may endanger its fund-raising ability -- and its ministry to the young...
...issues of "public speech" and "private harassment" are not clearly separable. Is the solution, then, to ignore the obvious gray area and allow all hateful speech? Of course not. Neither is it to ban all offensive speech. The solution is to appoint a group comprised of students, faculty and administrators to discuss borderline cases...
Currently, cases of harassment and speech are decided behind closed doors by the Ad Board. A student-faculty-administration committee on free speech would be a fair way to deal with the gray areas more openly. The Faculty should appoint a free speech committee with such carefully delinated responsibility. While it would be ideal for a "community" to set the standards of speech completely as the staff position implies, such a mechanism is unrealistic and unreliable. As long as students have equal input, we see a balanced committee as the most fair of possible solutions...
Instead of merely shunning politics, the council could make any number of institutional changes to give itself a more legitimate and effective voice on campus. For one, the council should appoint an effective council historian to provide institutional memory and to prevent the council from repeating its mistakes. Subramanian appointed an historian earlier this semester, but she seems to have abandoned her poorly-defined duties...
...calling on Gov. Weld to appoint a blueribbon commission of outstanding engineers, civicdesign people and community representatives totake a second look," said Primack. "We need agroup to tell us what's the truth...