Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...only are both groups being hypocritical, both are wrong. Kinko's didn't have a legal obligation to publish the flyer, but it should have published it anyway...
...precisely because Defeat Homophobia represents those long persecuted by society that its stand is also wrong. It has leaped to the defense of an employee action it should instead disavow. Defeat Homophobia is short-sighted in advocating the suppression of unpopular opinions. The dispute is made even easier by the fact that the poster in question had nothing to do with AALARM's opinions on homosexuality; its opposition to UHS funding for abortion is well within legitimate campus discourse...
...wrong. I am not blaming the book-checkers for their ineptitude. It would be impossible for the most diligent guard to check thoroughly the belongings and person of every student that exits the libraries. When classes let out in Lamont, more than 50 people leave the building in less than five minutes. Thoroughly checking a student would take two or three minutes at least--creating a huge traffic...
...mind, she was wrong. One has the right to express ideas and opinions even if they are offensive the overwhelming majority. This right was confirmed by the Supreme Court in its Skokie decision, which allowed Nazis to march in the streets of a predominantly Jewish suburb...
...reflections, though, are not intended to single our students for bashing. Would that the problem were so simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...