[611] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Dartmouth situation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael E Rolish)
Sat May 12 15:19:56 2001
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200105121919.PAA12217@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
From: Michael E Rolish <merolish@MIT.EDU>
To: revprez@MIT.EDU
CC: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
Prez,
I don't think this is about the First Amendment. Dartmouth,
after all, is a private institution.
I agree that most universities have been infected with moral
subjectivism (just look at the protests at Harvard, NEU,
UConn, etc.), but it is well within the college's rights
to determine what is and isn't proper conduct and act
accordingly.
These kids put out a publication, under the auspices of their
fraternity, that potentially ruined people's reputations and
implicitly advocated a serious crime.
If I were the president of a university where this kind of
thing happened, such jerks would be outta there in a second.
(Same thing for leftists who decide it is their "right" to
disrupt lectures, occupy buildings, etc.)
In short, "You have the right to free speech, but not in my
house!"
MER
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Michael E. Rolish, MIT '04
Course VI-3 - Computer Science
Course VII - Biology
merolish@mit.edu
"Serenity comes from the ability to say 'Yes' to existence.
Courage comes from the ability to say 'No' to the wrong
choices made by others."
-Ayn Rand, "The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made"
