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Many audience members said they felt having such a forum with speakers from both sides was very valuable...
However, Fenno's recent comments represent an abuse of that privilege. As Professor Nesson noted, instead of using the column as a forum to discuss critical issues, Fenno has abused it as a means of "imposing awful things about other people from behind the mask." The letter from the other professors underscored this point, saying: "Fenno's imaginings are so repugnant and mean-spirited that it is difficult to understand why the Record would publish them...
...editorial staff of the Record that allowed such destructive and racist comments to flow freely in its pages. We encourage the Record to be more responsible in its selection of the individual whom it designates as a social critic and for whom it provides a public forum. Any free speech, especially with the latitude of anonymity, needs to be wielded responsibly. Both the human hand that holds Fenno's pen and the editorial board that oversees it need to insure that the Record is a credible voice with the Law School community...
...There can be little doubt that Fenno's writings are protected from any government interference by the first amendment and that the HLS Administrative Board is an inappropriate forum to air personal grievances," wrote Jol A. Silversmith '94, president of the Harvard Law School Civil Liberties Union (HLSCLU) in a letter which will be published in the upcoming issue of the Record...
Silversmith said that HLSCLU is willing to host a forum in order to discuss the place of Fenno in campus discourse...