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...view that efforts at coercion and disruption, as opposed to discussion and persuasion, represent a proper means to achieve a desired result is mistaken, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of a university," the letter reads...
PSLM is trying to use coercion and force to obtain a living wage. Intentionally unlawful and disruptive behavior was an effective political tool during the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam-War movements, which PSLM seems to see as its heritage. But PSLM has employed the tools developed in these movements without good cause, cheapening their legacy and undermining our generation’s ability to use them if a truly worthy cause develops. Coercion is only justified when authorities have exercised their power in an entirely arbitrary and irrational manner. This is not the case today—though...
...Wage campaign proves that people in our generation do not care only about themselves. This is a heartening message, whether or not PSLM’s proposals are sound. It is essential that students constantly monitor the University to make sure that its actions are fair and just. But coercion is the wrong method for a campaign that is supposed to be about dialogue. Forcibly occupying Massachusetts Hall is not an effective way to protest economic inequality at the University. PSLM accuses Harvard of refusing to listen to its concerns, but it has not behaved in a manner that merits...
...hold other nations to legal standards to which we would not hold ourselves. I sincerely hope that the government of Serbia decides to cooperate with the Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, but out of respect for the principles of international law and human rights, and not due to coercion placed...
Capitulating to the hysteria of McCarthyism, Harvard commanded Raymond Ginger to either divulge his political allegiances or resign. Unwilling to comply with the coercion, he immediately submitted his letter of resignation. Harvard gave the Ginger family the monetary equivalent of the two remaining months of his contract, contingent on their rapid departure from Massachusetts. The quality of Raymond Ginger’s teaching and scholarship was never challenged, and the University committed a grave sin against academic freedom by forcing him out on the basis of his political views...