Word: coercion
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Students do deserve to receive punishment when they have broken school rules, but the shouting, the coercion and the intimidation, all of which have been known to take place when first-years err, must stop...
This is not the type of message we should be sending to any Harvard undergraduates, and particularly those newest to campus. Somehow, in my book, Veritas has nothing to do with coercion, scare tactics and rudeness...
...wholesale rejection of the idea that people have any right to keep what they earn. We should indeed hope that people use their wealth to help the poor. We should encourage generosity and compassion. But when we force these values upon people—when we replace charity with coercion and prod people to the donation box with a bayonet—we have committed a violation of individual liberty that conservatives find intolerable...
...workers, for faculty, for alumni and for the Cambridge-area community—those people did not have a clue what to do. For 21 days it was not business as usual in the halls of power. We should have no illusions: this sit-in was all about coercion. We all decided that we would not go along with the Corporation’s coercive power any more, that we would not let them force indecent poverty wages on members of our community...
Fifteen students circulated through the crowd holding signs reading, "Against Coercion, Against Intimidation, Against PSLM...