Survey Results from April: Estate Survey Question
In the April issue, we asked whether you thought campus newspaper editors should have refused to run a full-page ad in which conservative author David Horowitz condemns the idea of making reparations to black Americans for slavery. We received the following responses:
No.
Horowitz may have an alternative view but it is just that — an alternative view. Nothing wrong with that. — Kerry Baldwin ’93
No.
I disagree with Mr. Horowitz’s viewpoint, but that does not mean that I think it should have been rejected from publication. Protecting First Amendment free speech rights involves providing a forum or opportunity for opposing viewpoints to be expressed. It is true that a newspaper editor has to make sure the submissions to her paper are "tasteful, (and) appropriate," but a newspaper is also a public forum. First Amendment jurisprudence dictates that public forums be open to all forms of speech regardless of viewpoint. The only limitations which are allowed are "time, place, manner" restrictions, but these are usually only applied to matters of public safety and they are subjected to the highest level of judicial scrutiny. — Kimberly Macey ’98