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...restraining order is upheld in court this morning. M.I.T. officers can ask the court in the afternoon to send police to arrest demonstrators for contempt of court. Johnson said yesterday that only he would call for police, after receiving advice from M.I.T. faculty members and students who will be on hand to watch for possible violations of the court order...
Their struggles set these students apart from middle-class student radicals, and they know it. A few, as might be expected, express contempt for college revolutionaries. Olga Mike, 20, who has worked as a domestic and a receptionist while attending N.Y.U., speaks bitterly of "Kids with nothing to do-they don't even go to classes, but they take over a building and sit in it drinking wine." Most of the working-class students share the radicals' opposition to the Viet Nam war and the draft. Many even grant that campus rebels have done some good by awakening...
...radical vein is interesting here. They respond not by argument but by invidious rank-pulling. Much as they mock the editorial, they produce not a single argument against it. Rather the implication is that such an ignorant editorial ("simplistic," "shoddy") merits not argument, but counter-assertion and contempt from informed scholars, amongst whom the professors clearly place themselves. This is arrogant nonsense. There are plenty of scholars, at least as well-informed as our self-esteeming professors (albeit of a different persuasion, thank God), who would, I'm sure, find far more to defend in the editorial than...
...Constant Contempt...
...Every minute we're in there we're in contempt of the trial and the whole system that makes it possible," he said...