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...Stade said, however, that he would take no action without the consent of the Freshman Council...
...began to monitor the project. As the national controversy increased, Dr. David Allen at Boston City Hospital set up a review committee in September 1972 composed of professionals in many fields which acted as an advocate for the patient, ensuring that he had full knowledge and was giving full consent. State Senator Chester Atkins (D-Concord) introduced a bill into the legislature December 1973 which proposed to establish a review board of different specialists and three members of the public with the power to grant or deny permission for an operation for experimental neurosurgery and revoke a physician's license...
Rejection of the CRR became a legacy that was handed down from one class to the next. Incoming freshmen soon learned of the repressive nature of both the Resolution and the committee set up to implement it. After the three student moderates resigned, no other students would consent to serve on the CRR. Subsequent attempts to hold elections met with outright resistance...
...Seduction of the Spirit is properly not a book at all but a manifesto and a scattering of blueprints. Its thrust: Marx was only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered without consent," religion is also sometimes the only way a defeated culture can preserve its history. An oppressed people's religion becomes a way to stave off extinction and absorption. Through ritual and symbol, collective remembrance and testimony, it endures as a sanctuary for the impulse and energies of liberation. In times...
Alaskan natives, whose lands were also acquired illegally by Americans in 1867 (there was no native consent), recently received 40 millions acres of land and $950 million in compensation from Congress, indicating that a similar' compensation for Hawaiians is feasible...