harvard speech code
Boston Globe: Harvard Law plan on speech causes stir. What do you think?Harvard's Black Law Students Association and some faculty have been pressing since last spring for a speech code that would punish offending students and professors. The law school community was ruptured at that time by a series of racial incidents - most notably one student's use of the word ''nig'' in an online course notebook, a professor's defense of that student, and another professor's comment that feminism, Marxism, and black studies have ''contributed nothing'' to tort law.
Yet while law school officials have taken steps to soothe campus tensions since then, their primary action - forming the Committee on Healthy Diversity, which said it plans to draft the proposed speech code - has created a new wave of concern.
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Another sad case of the "I believe in free speech, unless it offends me" mindset that permeates the left and right. The right is just more crass about it, but the left can be just as guilty.
Posted by: Oliver | November 19, 2002 9:18 PM
Oh Oliver, don't make all of Harvard out as having lefty PC guilt -- Alan Dershowitz's arguing against it (rightly so, I think) and the right certainly has no love for him.
Posted by: lia | November 19, 2002 9:48 PM
So what else is new ? Politically correct Babbits now dominate the faculty. I agree with the growing number of educators that Harvard and most of the Ivy league contribute less every year to America's social and economic progess. Most of the output become attorneys, politilcos and leftist professors with zip practical or ecomomic value.
Posted by: Glynn Moran | November 22, 2002 2:00 PM
So do you mean that "attorneys, politicos and leftist professors" inherently have no practical or economic value? Or just the ones that the Ivy League cranks out?
Posted by: nedlog | November 22, 2002 2:45 PM