[230] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: What can we do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Fri Apr 27 10:51:45 2001
To: LeeAnn L Henn <langdon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Alex M. Hochberger" <alex@feratech.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU,
spa-discuss@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: LeeAnn L Henn's message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:37:56 -0400"
Date: 27 Apr 2001 10:51:31 -0400
Message-ID: <ppw3dauflak.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
LeeAnn L Henn <langdon@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I think freshman can handle seeing such racism and sexism in print, but I
> think MIT was right in not allowing them to send the pamphlet out in the MIT
> mailing. They would never allow a campus chapter of the Ku Klux Klan to send
> out a mailing.
I would like to dispute this, since I think the administration should
keep itself content neutral, in accordance with the principles of
academic freedom. I'd like to know what groups *were* allowed to send
out material. For instance, were there pamphlets for any religious
groups, or pro-life/-choice groups, or campus
democrats/republicans/libertarians/greens? All of these could be
found offensive to some set of the MIT population, possible even more
so than the extropian mailing was.
Of course, I don't know what went out in the "official" packet.
Perhaps it was so watered down as to be content free.
Ray Jones
