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...recent amendment to the Higher Education Act passed by the Senate is seen by some as a provision for the use of coercion by the Federal government relative to the political activities of students. What is your opinion...
Many presidents have issued clear warnings. Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr, said that the university will listen to "anyone who is himself willing to listen," but that "coercion must be rejected as a substitute for persuasion." A student's views on campus matters, he said, "should be primarily motivated by what is best for Yale, not what will help him attain some other personal, political or ideological objective." At his installation as the new president of Brandeis, Morris Abram declared that "the right of students, faculty or anyone else to disrupt the learning process is no right...
Second, resort to such pyhsical coercion tends to set in motion an uncontrollable escalation of violence. This is the plainest lesson of the rising cycle of violence that began at Columbia with the Naval ROTC demonstration in 1965 and culminated in the brutality of April 30 and May 22. The sequence of steps was not inevitable but each was the readily predictable consequence of those that went before...
Citizens Against Coercion. That was too much for Knowland, who ordered a front-page editorial titled "Our Community Challenged." Every citizen, it said, should "realize that this is an attempt to use threats and brute force to demand compliance with the views of an articulate and aggressive minority. This was a process used by both the Nazis and the Communists in destroying free institutions abroad." Knowland then urged the "average citizen" (meaning white) to patronize the boycotted market. "This is where we stand," concluded the editorial. "Where do you stand...
...gripping a revolver surrounded by inky darkness. "Think it over carefully," said the caption, "because some time soon you may have to decide whether you want to run a business with a gun to your head or close up shop." The ad announced a campaign for "Citizens Pledged Against Coercion" and urged readers to sign up. With similar ads running daily for a week, some 1,100 people...