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passage will be read ONLY ONCE. As you listen to the passage, fill in the blanks
with the words you hear. After the passage there will be a 3-minute pause.
During the pause, you must write the words on the Answer Sheet. Now, please get
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words. Campus tradition made any horizontal surface not attached to a building a
potential billboard. But when talkings began taking on a more threatening and
lewd tone, Bennet decided to act. "This is not acceptable in a workplace
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institution of higher learning," Bennet says. For now, Bennet is seeking input
about what kind of message-posting policy the school should adopt. The student
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consider harassing speech in the wake of a series of incidents last
spring. At a meeting held by the "Committee on Healthy
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review by school officials if there were charges of "severe or pervasive
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such as race, {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, creed,
sexual orientation, national origin, and ethnicity (种族划分).
Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate, says other schools have adopted similar
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{{/U}}speech codes, punishing students for raising certain ideas.
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continues uninterrupted," says Silverglate, who {{U}} {{U}}
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