Word: muhammad
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...their Crimson letter (April 28), the Black Law Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...
...disingenuous of Muhammad Kenyatta and BLSA to label the PLO representative's talk "a private teach-in on the Palestinian issue." For, as I and Prof. Patterson argued in our letter, at Harvard or any other university the norms of fairness and free speech mandate that a "teach-in" be an inclusive event, not an exclusive...
...intellectuals." Though the new regime is undoubtedly less merciless than Mao's, it has shown a frightening propensity for relapsing into violent bouts of puritanism and dogmatism. In 1979 Deng released the country from the cultural straitjacket of the Mao era, admitting Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were publicly censuring Playwright Bai Hua, who had dared to let one of his characters ask her father, "You love your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month...
More than 30 Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) members attended the panel discussion, outnumbering members of BALSA and the Third World Coalition, the event's sponsors. But after opening the forum to questions from the floor, BALSA moderator Muhammad I. Kenyatta refused to recognize any of the white hands raised in the audience. BALSA and TWC members were to be given priority, he announced, proceeding to call on a Black student who hadn't raised his hand...
Finally, we are fully in agreement with Prof. Alan Dershowitz's request to President Derek Bok and Harvard Law School officials that they immediately condemn and censure Muhammad Kenyatta and BALSA for their violation of the rules of fairness and free speech in our community. Martin Kilson Professor of Government Orlando Patterson Professor of Sociology