As a Tufts student abroad I have been loosely following the turmoil surrounding the Source. Until today I have not felt it necessary to add my comments to the maelstrom that already exists. However, after reading the uninformed comments of Iris Halpern I feel compelled to respond.
Free Speech is not a blanket statement that protects all actions and words, especially when a person's actions prevent to impede another person from expressing their right to Free Speech. Whether you agree with the source or not it was exercising freedom of speech when it printed its drawings. It is a quasi-private organization that was expressing its views.
Students have the option and right to: agree with them, disagree with them, or ignore them completely. Students DO NOT, however; have the right to silence the Source by altering its appearance or contents unless they are members of the magazine. The students who vandalized the Source were not exercising their First amendment rights,! they are in fact prohibiting the Source and everyone on Campus from exercising theirs. You should be outraged at this abridgment of your rights. So how about this for a sticker:
"Imagine a Campus Free to Express Itself."
Eric Krause
LA '02
