Word: disobeying
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Repeat that, please. Have you told them what it means to disobey orders under fire...
...advantage of such orders is that they can bring students to justice much faster than if the university goes through the sometimes interminable process of disciplining them itself, or has them arrested for trespassing. If the students disobey the order, they may be tried on contempt-of-court charges within a matter of days. The judge who issues the writ may also hear the charges, and the accused often has no right to a jury. If convicted, students may be sent to jail and fined. If they repeatedly defy the court order, they may be cited for contempt any number...
...Union was founded at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1967 by Pvt. Andrew Stapp, who has since been discharged from the Army. The A.S.U. (total membership about 5,000) advocates a program that includes election of officers, an end to saluting, and recognition of the right to bargain collectively and disobey "illegal" orders...
Must we not justify them all? If a student has a right to break the conscription law, does this not give the Klan the right to disobey the Civil Rights Act? There is a confusion here between the tolerance of all speech, and the tolerance of all actions. I would argue that all promulgation of ideas by speech or press whether odious to us or not, should be tolerated without distinction; that we, as citizens, should defend someone's right to speak stupidly (even while we expose that studidity), that whatever "harm" may come from bad ideas...
...House of Representatives' current initiative to cut off Federal aid from students who disobey university regulations is a striking example of 90th Congress' confused and reactionary approach to the nation's most urgent problems. In approving the measure last week, the House showed once again, as it has in its responses to the riots and to the antiwar movement, that most of its members lack any understanding of the phenomena which they seek to suppress...