Lovely story; however I believe in reparations on condition that those receiving same be given a one way ticket back to South Africa to see where they would have been today as compared to their days of being sold by their own to slave ships (most were jewish slave ships for that is Old Testament stuff - people having to work for a living).....so they would find they will have come into a complete circle. Reparations - what about reparations to our sons and fathers and daughters who died in these wars for "Old Glory" when all the time it was for what again - Freedom? Freedom of Speech, the right to freely express your vieiws and while we are at it, tell me - is there anywhere in this country in a school that has the guts to have WHITE HISTORY MONTH? No - these sodomists who were taking control would have more time spent learning sodomy for elementary school than the story of Washington cutting down the cherry treet and admitting same without lying.....such virtues and morals are "tabou" today along with a simple prayer if a child so wants to recite same? Well - be sure to get re=run of Heathers I for Heathers II is coming up - and now on to more school bombings, kids turning queer, and reparations for these poor injured souls for I believe reparations with one way ticket would sol 99 percent of the problems in this once great Christian Nation? Sba Automobiles Job Market Real Estate All Classifieds Quick News NYT Front Page Arts Business Health International National New York Region Obituaries Politics Science Sports Technology Weather Corrections Special: Taxes Editorials / Op-Ed Readers' Opinions Automobiles Books Cartoons Crossword/Games Job Market Living Magazine Movies Photos Real Estate Travel Week in Review Special: Oscars Boston.com GolfDigest.com Learning Network New York Today NYT Store Shopping Archives Screensavers Help Center Media Kit NYT Mobile Our Advertisers Home Delivery Customer ServiceReview Profile E-Mail Options Log Out Text Version Welcome, saba22 Sign Up for Newsletters | Log Out Go to Advanced Search March 21, 2001 An Ad Provokes Campus Protests and Tests Limits on Expression By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO Brown University's campus newspaper is facing criticism and protests for the decision by its editors to run an advertisement that denounced calls for reparations for slavery. • Join a Discussion on Race Relations ROVIDENCE, R.I., March 19 — The editor of the student newspaper at Brown University says he knew a tempest was headed his way and rose to open the door for it. A few weeks ago, the editor, Brooks King, read about a campaign by David Horowitz, a conservative author in Los Angeles, to place an advertisement in college newspapers denouncing calls for reparations to black Americans for slavery. In the full-page advertisement, Mr. Horowitz argues that blacks do not deserve redress because white Christians ended slavery, and that rather than getting compensation, black Americans owe the country for the freedom and prosperity they now enjoy. Mr. King says he concluded that the advertisement intended to offend sensibilities at liberal campuses, exposing what Mr. Horowitz and other conservatives describe as the intolerance of political correctness. And he decided that because this was part of an important national debate, he would take up the challenge. "But I didn't expect this," Mr. King, a lanky, bespectacled junior, said. Last week, student protesters removed stacks of The Brown Daily Herald from its stands on campus. In running the advertisement, Mr. King became only the latest college editor in recent weeks to find himself entangled in a racially tinged controversy prompted by Mr. Horowitz. At the University of California, The Daily Californian ran the advertisement, but, under pressure from protesters, issued a front-page apology regretting having become "an inadvertent vehicle for bigotry." At the University of Wisconsin, Julie Bosman was confronted by 100 students demanding her resignation after the paper she edits, The Badger Herald, ran the advertisement. In a telephone interview, Mr. Horowitz said university campuses suffered from a prevailing liberal orthodoxy that treated conservative views, and those who expound them, like toxic waste: fit for burying or burning, but not for engaging in dialogue. "Colleges should be stimulating discussions of these issues, not encouraging political rallies on behalf of one side of the issues," he said, and called the protesting students "campus fascists." Mr. Horowitz said he noticed that campuses were holding conferences on reparations throughout Black History Month, but none were debating the question so much as presuming reparations were a good idea. Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, said that Mr. Horowitz was clearly on a campaign of provocation but that colleges were easy prey. Contrary to their image as arenas of intellectual debate, Mr. Botstein said, colleges tolerate dissent poorly. "We say we believe in dissent but we actually do not practice it well," Mr. Botstein said, especially in matters of race, what he called "the central question of life in America." At Brown, the protesters, a group that included African-Americans, Asian-Americans and whites, formed human chains at scattered sites and demanded that the paper pay its own form of reparations — by donating the $725 it earned from the advertisement to the Third World Student Coalition, and giving them a free page of advertising space to refute Mr. Horowitz. The paper refused the demands but expanded space for opinion articles in today's issue. The group's ire was directed at first at decision to run the advertisement, transforming the clash here — and on most other campuses Mr. Horowitz has approached — into a debate not over reparations, but over the limits of expression. Continued 1 | 2 | Next>> • Plan Your Taxes With NYTimes.com • Get the latest on Mutual Funds • Trade stocks for $7 @ Scottrade.com, 125+ offices! • Learn more about college sports Click Here to Receive 50% Off Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. 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