Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejecting substantive reform, the Faculty Council has chosen to preserve the CRR's essentially rigged bias. The committee, descendant of those established in the wake of the 1969 riots that were explicitly designed to control student dissent, retains procedures that stack the deck against any defendant...
...family, with the CRR simply the expressing parental discipline. The Faculty Council's reforms obscure but cannot alter the essentially adversary nature of the committee, forcing students to view the benevolent claims of the administration with some trepidation. The committee as it now stands is expressly constituted to control certain avenues of undergraduate political action--it imposes no restrictions on the rest of the Harvard community. Any student hauled before the committee must be forgiven when he sees only a prosecutor in the form of the administrator presenting the case against...
...long as the CRR is designed as a political disciplinary committee no amount of reform will repair its basic flaw. There is no place in an academic community for an institution designed to control expression. Until the Faculty repudiates the very concept of such an institution, no student should break the reinstated boycott...
Bakhtiar's chances of consolidating his control over the country declined sharply yesterday when Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled spiritual leader of the Iranian Moslem community, refused to meet with one of Bakhtiar's envoys in Paris...
...Barkett works as an over-the-road driver in Ohio--he makes $28,000 a year, and as Brill says, "You give a guy that kind of money and you sure don't get a dissident." Brill understands as well as anyone the litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status...