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Excerpt: “There is no agreement that students, soldiers or prisoners should be granted even the most basic rights of free press of free speech. Of these groups that society excludes from the blanket of free expression, the largest and most important is students [...] [who are] frequently are forbidden to voice even mild criticism of school officials or policies. In civics classes they learn of America’s heritage of freedom of expression, but in journalism classes they discover that this freedom rings hollow in the schools...
Excerpt(s): "Democracy['s] [...] reprentativies [sic] cannot run contrary to the basic wishes of the people in any game of bluff. [...] [I]n a dictatorship the people, even if they wished, are often powerless to impress their wishes on the dictator until it is too late. This advantage is conceded to the dictator but is felt that in the long run under a democratic system, the united support of the people once the war is decided on, will prove to be a balancing factor. It is true that in the meantime democracy will suffer strategic defeats that may jeopardize their...
...basic philosophy of the Expository Writing Program has remained the same over the years regardless of the type of expos class being offered...
...paced more moderately, and was more targeted towards basic grammar and paragraph-building skills than the regular Expos course was,” Buell said. “Faculty accepted it as a transitional class for the less prepared students...
EPIC also provided “a kind of basic training” for those interested in social justice, according to Pressman. Many of the most active EPIC members were involved in later Civil Rights-era events—including the 1964 Freedom Summer—and other movements such as anti-Vietnam War protests. And the legacy of this early student movement, both at Harvard and around the country, provided a framework for the heyday of student engagement...