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Wait a minute, though, Ignore the fact that Boston's streets are notoriously the worst in the nation, filled with potholes that could disable a German tank. Never mind that Massachusetts drivers don't pay attention to little things like stop signs, street lights, and pedestrians. Disregard the local police's intense, burning desire to spend the major portion of each day ticketing every vehicle in sight...
...University governing group can completely disregard the will of the individuals that University purportedly serves. Now is the time to make our voices heard...
...jury on how it should weigh what it has heard. In the news-gathering process, the press is both prosecutor and sole judge of its own activities-answerable in advance of publication to no one (though it can be sued once the story is out), free to select or disregard evidence as it pleases, free to omit counterclaims, to minimize rebuttals. Such absence of prior restraint is essential to a free press, but the press at least should recognize that it enjoys more unchecked advantages than a courtroom adversary, and therefore incurs some obligations...
WORSE STILL is the Faculty's apparent disregard of student opinion throughout the development of the Core. A petition circulated in the past two weeks garnered some 2500 student signatures in favor of more student input to the Core's development, and a Crimson poll shows that fully 65 per cent of undergraduates oppose the plan. Meanwhile, the Faculty accepts as representative of student opinion the support of two organizations with undergraduate members, the Committee on Undergraduate Education and the Educational Resources Group. Clearly, neither group represents student opinion on this issue, yet they constitute the only student input into...
...profession want to see it done ?and enforced. "Lawyering," suggests Eric Schnapper, a New York public interest attorney, "is within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very art of the lawyer is a sort of calculated disregard of the law or at least of ordinary notions of morality." Under the current code, he notes, only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free legal assistance to the indigent, for failing to disclose legal precedent...