Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOST entertaining piece in this issue is Molly Ivins's examination of the Texas Legislature, "Inside the Austin Fun House." Three years ago, to demonstrate the lack of attention given to proposed bills, a legislator presented a resolution that passed without dissent, honoring Albert DeSalvo for his efforts in population control. Ivins recalls another bill requiring felons to submit twenty-four hours advance notice of their intended crimes, and a free-for all during which four representatives mounted the speaker's platform to sing "I Had a Dream, Dear." A recent study of state legislatures rated Texas thirty-eighth...
...association, identical to those of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the early 1950's. Cole's comparison is extremely unsound. Lindbergh was not simply an objective surveyor of the international scene, and Cole's portrayal of him as a Lone Eagle victimized by a powerful administration intolerant of dissent, is patently invalid. Lindbergh was a Germanophile, extremely sympathetic to Nazi policies in Germany, and obviously a racist. He saw the Soviet Union as the paramount world danger and said frequently that he would rather ally himself with the Nazis than with the U.S.S.R., a nation of "godlessness, cruelty, and barbarism...
...bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...
...There is not right to protest within a university building in such a way that any university activity is disrupted. The administration, however, may wish to permit some symbolic dissent within a building but outside the meeting room, for example, a single picket or a distributor of handbills...
...room where the invited speaker is to talk, all members of the audience are under an obligation to comply with a general standard of civility. This means that any registration of dissent that materially interferes with the speaker's right to proceed is a punishable offense. Of course a member of the audience may protest in a silent, symbolic fashion, for example, by wearing a black arm band. More active forms of protest may be tolerated such as briefly booing, clapping hands, or heckling. But any disruptive activity must stop when the chair or an appropriate university official requests silence...