[646] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: University Rights: Point of Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Sun May 13 03:48:02 2001
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:47:01 -0400
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
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At 07:54 PM 5/12/01 , Christopher D. Beland wrote
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>Dartmouth has no pretense of tolerating certain classes of speech
>which it deems harassing. Neither does MIT.
I beg to differ: Dartmouth's Board of Trustees states:
Freedom of Expression and Dissent
Freedom of expression and dissent is protected by College regulations.
Dartmouth College prizes and defends the right of free speech and the freedom
of the individual to make his or her own disclosures, while at the same time
recognizing that such freedom exists in the context of the law and
responsibility for one's actions. The exercise of these rights must not deny
the same rights to any other individual. The College, therefore, both fosters
and protects the rights of individuals to express dissent.
Protest or demonstration shall not be discouraged so long as neither force nor
the threat of force is used, and so long as the orderly processes of the
College are not deliberately obstructed.
Membership in the Dartmouth community carries with it, as a necessary
condition, the agreement to honor and abide by this policy.
While obviously this probably refers to whatever communist
views are held by the hippies running that madhouse,
they poorly state their intention as protecting the
right to free expression.
>Neither institution claims to support absolute free speech; most
>people don't.
Wait a minute...
Dartmouth clearly does. MIT has a hodgepodge of regulations and
an ambiguous statement regarding "proper respect."
>They support free speech inasmuch as it protects
>legitimate academic freedom.
Well, that's a nice little term you pulled out of your ass.
>Dartmouth has decided that the attitude
>underlying Zeta Psi's speech harms academic freedom (especially for
>its female members) more than it helps.
Yes, it did. It speaks to their inability to tolerate
speech counter to their hippie ideals.
>It's guess it's easier to criticize strawmen than people who
>legitimately disagree with you.
I find it rare that people "legitimately" disagree with me
on matters such as this. More likely I encounter emotional
and utterly irrational responses.
Rev Prez
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