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...bitter dissent, Justice Thurgood Marshall pointed out that there was no comparable rule against frivolous appeals by fee-paying litigants. Wrote Marshall: "This court once had a great tradition: 'All men and women are entitled to their day in court.' That guarantee has now been conditioned on monetary worth...
...incident--and sent copies to the entire student body and faculty--members of the pro-diversity" Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) went ballistic. The CCR, which sponsored the nine-hour sit-in, drafted a response to Clark's letter, calling his warnings "a clear attempt to chill voices of dissent on this campus...
Opponents of Clark's get-tough policy will continue to insist that the dean is merely using the rules to stifle dissent and discourage debate. This is nonsense, of course. No one has objected to peaceful, non-disruptive forms of protest, such as speeches, forums, articles and the like...
WITH SUFFICIENT PERSONNEL, police should be able to control any demonstration. What cannot be accepted are "big brother" tactics which infringe on the right to dissent and the community's right to be informed...
...recognize that these protests are important in that they high light efforts to increase minority and women representation among the University's faculty ranks. But now, the staff takes the hard-line position that the protesters should not only be punished for breaking laws which protect the dean from dissent, but should be threatened before protests even occur. Such threats, as Dean Clark hopes, can only serve to destroy all protest...