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This was now the message: radical change, total resistance. Yet it was refined, carefully restricted resistance that the Berrigans preached. "Do not validate old bankrupt methods of coercion and murder." Daniel warned, "by creating new. bankrupt methods of roughly the same things." They remained exasperatingly ebullient: Philip was still the gregarious, plainspoken man who greeted friends with bear hugs or bone-crushing handshakes: Daniel still the wide-smiling purveyor of a deep, almost secret gaiety. When Daniel was arrested in August, the photo of the arrest prompted Dwight Macdonald and Robert McAfee Brown to identical judgments: Berrigan, grinning...
Reformers contend that the new alternatives eliminate the coercion that often blocks real learning, and encourage genuine curiosity in many students who otherwise might be bored to the point of hostility. Skeptics insist that such highly individualized scholarship needs close faculty-student rapport, and that big campuses will never be able to afford the staff to provide it. The new approach, they fear, could eliminate incentives to hard work and undercut liberal education with academic faddism...
...firm supporters of academic freedom on campus, we would have found such action repugnant. We merely attempted to demonstrate our moral opposition to the use of coercion at Harvard by the radical left. Freedom of conscience, especially for academics with unpopular views, is vital to a great university...
Complaints of unfair labor practices have been filed by both the CHMC and the security guards. A suit filed by the CHMC charged the security guards with conducting an illegal strike and obstructing vehicles entering hospital areas. The security guards' suit cites "threats, intimidation and coercion" of the guards by the medical center...
...issue organization, committed to the free exchange ofideas on campus and opposed to the use of violence, coercion, or intimidation," Waldron added...