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Our second mistake was to prefer a clear conscience to any meaningful conception of politics. The anti-war movement was gestated in miniscule groups of moral protest, like the Boston Resistance, with a quasi-religious fervor for martyrdom. For many of us, it was simply enough to be right. So...
The actual news was not as bad as the reports suggested. It almost never is where Harvard is concerned, given the propensity of the media to turn events here into mega trends. It is true that a small band of determined speech-wreckers succeeded in drowning Weinberger out at times...
But the fact of the matter is that this year's confluence of a number of events and movements has brought the issue of academic freedom--which has characterized so much of the political debate in Harvard's history--once again to the fore. The Weinberger incident was only one...
The fundamental principle of any policy towards issues of free speech and academic freedom must be constancy. If a university--and Harvard in particular--stands for something, it must be, as officials have for so long pontificated, for a commitment to utter openness and freedom of thought and inquiry. Thus...
Nor was the University's concern for free expression apparent in its efforts this year--through Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--to censor the halftime performances of the Harvard Band. Complaining that the performances did not "communicate across generations," Epps began screening the scripts. Phrases deleted under this...