It was believed that Woodruff had aided the students in their efforts after he openly contested the officiating of the football contest.
Through blogs, websites, magazines, fanzines, panels and conferences activists are raising their voices, singers give concerts to honour women who have been victims of killings, writers and poets condemn the violence openly and contest it with their words.
And even small schemes, if they multiply across the country, can add up to a culture change.David Miliband, the slight favourite to win the Labour Party's ongoing leadership contest, openly mourns the last government's failure to trust people more.
I have a very clear, long-held view on this: that "no platforming" unpopular views is counterproductive, discourages debate and the due dissection of error, and pushes views one would like to contest openly underground, where they may well flourish better than if exposed to the clear light of argument (which is one of the things that universities are for).
It places responsibility in the hands of the campus community (rather than administrators) to "openly and vigorously" contest opposing views within the mission to educate.
The Purdue policy states, "It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose".
The Muslim Brotherhood is a powerful force in Egypt, even if it is not allowed to contest elections openly.
Senior executives at ESPN, which will televise the game, are openly speculating that the contest could challenge ratings records — perhaps matching the mark set in 2006, when the game between Texas and U.S.C. attracted a 21.7 Nielsen rating.
IN MANY democratic countries, party leadership contests are openly fought affairs.
Since then the PLA has openly recruited hackers, sponsoring contests at universities and posting job advertisements.The Chinese army's doctrine of cyber-warfare (like that of a number of Western counterparts) is to knock out the enemy's information infrastructure, and its doctrine of cyber-security is to go on the offensive to defend itself against attacks.
