Hustler v. Falwell and university newspapers?

[Robert Justin Lipkin]

In a message dated 10/18/2001 10:11:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mcconnellm at LAW.UTAH.EDU writes:


> the concept of sexual harassment may
>

While I agree that our vocabulary for dealing with incivility is
impoverished, perhaps radically so, I do not think that the concept of sexual
harassment is the or perhaps even a culprit. Rather, I believe the notion of
'civic virtue' and its vehicle 'civic discourse' has never fully been
articulated despite being central elements in our original republican
commitment to self-rule. Even today, or perhaps especially today, the idea of
civic virtue is little more than a blandishment having little or no content,
even in the hands of some having negative content. The real test, it seems to
me, is to articulate a conception of civic virtue that requires a discourse,
a form of morality, if you will, that expresses the appropriate attitudes for
interacting  with other citizens in a society committed to self-rule,
including, of course, dissenting from the views of others. It may be that it
is too late to retrieve 'civic virtue,' in today's "crossfire culture," but I
would hope that 'civility' is still a viable concept capable of being refined
and perfected in democratic terms.

Bobby Lipkin
Widener University School of Law
Delaware
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