Ross G. Douthat `01, president of The Salient, a conservative campus magazine, said he agreed wholeheartedly.

"Debates on these issues tend to be debates within factions of the left," he said. "Certain kinds of [conservative] speech are out of bounds."

Lewis noted a historical shift in censorship since the 1920's and 1930's.

"The people being suppressed [back then] were always on the left," Lewis said. "They were the people being held in prison for speaking. I'm struck by the fact that the censorial mood [of today] is all on the other side."

Sandel took exception, however, to the notion of unlimited freedom of speech in an academic setting.

"I'd like to speak on behalf of the 'censorial mood,'" Sandel said. "It seems to me that The Crimson made a sensible judgment and the Brown paper made a poor judgment. The right to free speech was never involved."

"We should-especially as an academic community-attend more to the content of ideas," Sandel added.