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...statement comes in reponse to the events of last Friday when a Tufts senior leapt on stage and tried to attack former contra head Adolfo Calero, who was about to begin his speech at Langdell Hall. Harvard Police dragged Joshua Laub from the scene, and the speech was cancelled...
Students from the Harvard Law School Republicans (HLSR), cosponsor of the event, said that they and Calero himself wanted the event to continue as planned after Laub's attack. HLSR officials said yesterday that they hoped to reschedule the speech, but that they had not yet spoken to Law School officials...
...leftist troublemaker did manage to sneak in, however. Joshua Laub, a senior at Tufts and a member of the International Committee Against Racism (INCAR), attempted to attack Calero as the contra made his way to the podium. Harvard police quickly and successfully subdued Laub, but Law School officials nonetheless cancelled the event, despite Calero's willingness to continue...
OBVIOUSLY, the University must not tolerate violent protests such as Laub's attack. However, there is no need to cancel a speech every time a minor disruption occurs...
...Calero speech, the audience was even ideologically screened. What could security have feared after Laub had been subdued? Certainly an audience of 350 conservatives and press people was not going to riot. Even the remote possibility that another 20 Laubs were out there should not have daunted the Harvard Police. The only hindrance to the continuation of Calero's speech was Harvard's sqeamishness in the face of physical protest...