‘A Harvard Law School committee announced plans yesterday to draft a speech code that would ban harassing, offensive language from the classroom, a highly unusual step for a law school and a move that runs counter to a national trend against interfering with campus speech.

Last night, the proposed code set off such a furious debate at an extraordinary campus ”town meeting” that some committee members and the law school dean said afterward that they were deeply uneasy with the idea.’ The fractious campus, home of many fierce First Amendment champions, has been rocked by several racial incidents. The Committee on Healthy Diversity, which has been the administration’s major response to the racial tension, is the source of the proposal for a code of speech. Boston Globe