[615] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
entering the fray
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kendall B McConnel)
Sat May 12 15:47:59 2001
Message-Id: <200105121947.PAA10332@rei.mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:47:03 -0400
From: Kendall B McConnel <kendallm@MIT.EDU>
A couple things:
I've been thinking a lot about free speech and how it affects people...
When does it cross the line to make remarks that are considered harrassment?
It's a free country. What about racism? Free speech is protected.
Well, say and do as you please. And for the most part, colleges
support (as Sourav said) almost all free speech because they want
to encourage thought. However, there comes a point when something you
say can be deemed a crime by the community you are living in. For
example MIT doesn't condone racism or harrassment, even just verbally
because, again, it interferes with the enviorment the university wants to
create.
At any rate, the line is drawn by the folks who choose the rules around here.
If you come here, you subscribe to those rules. Concerning Dartmouth
(which I know nothing about :) they have rules which, hopefully their
remaining consistent to.
I'm not sure why I essentially restated Sourav here...
the other conclusion I've come to is that it'd be nice if
we moved this to another list... and better yet..
Why don't we discuss what we want to fix about the dining system?
Kendall
