[634] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Dartmouth and Zeta Psi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Sat May 12 19:32:04 2001
To: Matt Craighead <craighea@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: Matt Craighead's message of "Sat, 12 May 2001 17:09:07 -0400"
Date: 12 May 2001 19:31:57 -0400
Message-ID: <ppwbsoy16vm.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
Matt Craighead <craighea@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Well, read the First Amendment. Note the phrasing. "Congress shall
> make no law..." This says absolutely _nothing_ about what private
> organizations may or may not do.
You miss the point. Prez isn't arguing (from my reading) that MIT
should be bound by the Constitution from a legal standpoint, but
rather because of the principles to which it lays claim. Most
importantly, the free exchange of ideas, which is fundamentally
opposes having a speech code.
Ray Jones
