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I wonder whether Warwick students and alumni would welcome the ¡°brand¡± of their university (or indeed their degrees) being associated with strict academic obedience and conformity and an avoidance of reasoned debate (¡°The right to be unpopular¡±, Leader, 10 July). Definitions of ¡°acceptable¡± and ¡°dangerous¡± behaviour in relation to any exercise of free speech (vide the Education Reform Act 1988) are rightly a public concern ¨C or where will it all end?

Nigel Wood
Professor of literature
Loughborough University