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...controversy over the limits of free speech at Harvard ended Tuesday, when a Leverett House sophomore took down a Confederate flag that had been hanging in his towerroom window...
...College takes no action, it will be moving away from its stated positions and away from its painstaking efforts to foster a tolerant environment. The College should demand the removal of the flag from the window...
...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibility: first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...
...hatred and dehumanization for many other students, both Black and white. To many in the Harvard community, the Confederate flag is provocative and insulting. Whether the student displaying the flag is oblivious to the pain it causes or just does not care, he should remove the flag from the window immediately...
...community can explain its objection to the displayer of the rebel flag, he might be persuaded to move it from a picture window to an inside wall. This solution would allow the student to fulfill his original purpose of regional representation while sparing others the undesirable overtones of bigotry...