The code also contains complex and cumbersome quasi-legal mechanisms for handling speech complaints. These mechanisms are constructed in such a way to give an unfair advantage to the person bringing the charges. Such measures are unwise. When we hear speech or see images that offend us, nothing is more human than our urge to suppress or to destroy them. But as deeply human is our need to think and to share our thoughts with others.
Censorship is the greatest evil because the censor's goal is to imprison the human spirit.
The proposed harassment code is unconstitutional, as well as in violation of the most elementary principles of academic freedom. The order to get rid of rap most likely came from the Chairman of the Emerson Board of Trustees, Jim Coppersmith. Coppersmith comes from television and is an archconservative with censorial leanings. Liebergott is a longtime bureaucrat who's been around Emerson for 25 years. The order went down from Liebergott to Fran Berger, the WERS faculty advisor and manager.