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...become a treacherous one. In fact, heresy may be as dead as God was supposed to be. Except for extremely conservative denominations, most Protestant bodies have abandoned the idea that a communicant can be expelled or punished for denying an article of faith. After an abortive attempt to condemn the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike* for heresy by the Episcopal House of Bishops, a committee of prelates concluded that moral suasion and intellectual arguments were the only means the church had to keep dissidents in line...
...responsibilities are the same. "You must dedicate yourself," says Hutchins, "to trying to understand things, and you must do this without regard for your source of financing." Clearly, this means that intellectuals should not keep quiet. Are they also obliged to propose alternatives to policies that they condemn? Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti believes that "the foremost contribution of intellectuals is dissent. To be opposed to the atomic bomb is not exactly negative thinking." It is also easy. The harder task is to be constructive about problems that are tougher because they may be soluble...
...undersigned condemn the hypocritical racist lies and slander of Portfolio Pig Pusey, Faculty Flunkey Ford, patrician punk von Stade ("I just can't believe our darkies could do this--even a small group of them"), and Weenie Whizzer Watson, as mad-dog Insanity and naked aggression against the People...
...think we should try to understand those students at Harvard, and others making similar protests against the military elsewhere, not self-righteously condemn them...
...affirm the right of teachers and students to be free to teach and learn in their classrooms. Accordingly, we unequivocally condemn any and all disruptions which interfere with this central principle of academic freedom of decency," it states...