Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Play with themselves? Carter and B.U. President John Silber are arguing that the new curfew rules will help create a better intellectual climate at the university. Does Carter think that masturbation is somehow more consequent with the academic mission of Boston University than is sexual intercourse? How, exactly? Perhaps he thinks it encourages more independence of thought. But then, the B.U. administration has never encouraged independence of thought in any part of the student body...
What's fascinating about the B.U. case is not the flippant insensitivity of administrators like Carter and Silber. This is to be expected. What's fascinating is the reaction of the B.U. student body to the new dorm policy...
...fact, B.U. students had a similar idea. They organized a march on Silber's house two Fridays ago, but called it off under pressure from Dean "go play with yourselves" Carter...
...march, set for September 16, was announced during a rally two days earlier, on Wednesday. It was called off after Carter met with the two students, Steve Ray and Angela Ranieri who were organizing the march and convinced them to cancel the demonstration and resort to more "rational" means of discourse...
...Carter denies having put any pressure on the two activists, saying that he only encouraged them to pursue different means. "If that's pressure, making someone think reasonably, then I'm guilty," Carter said. Surely he is not guilty of making students think reasonably; the cancellation of the march and Ray's complete sell-out were perhaps the most unreasonable actions possible by these so-called "activists...