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...first blow came late in February, when a Middlesex Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by 11 members of the Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), a two-year-old umbrella group for women and minority groups at the Law School...
...absurdity of the CCR is nothing compared to its hypocrisy. Weeks after they broke school rules and trespassing laws, after they ignored repeated warnings to leave the office and halted administrative activity for the day (and, by some accounts, actually shoved a secretary), our defiant sitters now stand up to accuse Clark of engineering a campaign of "intimidation." Here's some of what Mr. Gestapo said in his much decried letter of abominations...
Hardly the stuff of command councils or the KGB, Clark's letter reads more like the windy babble of a high school principal. (Only an administrator would employ circumlocutory phrases like "failed to exhibit.") Most people would have appreciated the warning, but not the CCR. The mere prospect that its members would be held accountable for their actions was enough to send everyone into a frightened panic...
Some students might challenge the dean by staging another sit-in to call his bluff. After all, it was CCR protester Keith Boykin who declared with Schwarzeneggerian flair, "We shall be back." If so, Dean Clark, I humbly offer my three-point plan to deal with campus malcontents in your office...
...these policies are executed, there will be fewer protests and fewer people at these protests. But the causes for which groups like CCR are fighting could be better served if their sit-ins drew only one or two committed students ready to put their academic careers on the line instead of the 45 who know they will get off scot free. Remember, it was the willingness of people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to endure hardship that lent credibility and depth to their civil disobedience...