Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institutionalized all dissent into four groups by establishing student-faculty subcommittees: the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the Committee on Student and Community Relations (CSCR), and the Committee on Undergraduate Education...
...that one member is a recent colleague of the Dean at the Business School. One taught until recently in the Department of City Regional Planning (from 1966-69, I believe). Two others have been prominent, one extremely so, in University committees and actions which have sought to stifle political dissent and political activity on campus. It is in most respects a "loaded" committee, one from which at least two, and possibly more, members ought to disqualify themselves, or be disqualified, in view of connections and relationships with the GSD and the principals there involved in this appeal (particularly...
...most chilling tactics used by Soviet authorities to suppress dissent is enforced confinement in a mental hospital. Selected rebel intellectuals are declared insane by obedient psychiatrists, and can be held indefinitely or punished at will-all under the aura of medical treatment and with no need for a public trial that could embarrass the state. The practice dates back to 1936, when the Soviet secret police first established prison hospitals. But only now, in the face of overwhelming evidence, are Western doctors raising a storm of protest against the misuse of their science by Russian colleagues...
...labor camp, plus five years in exile from Moscow. Last week 52 leading Soviet intellectuals, headed by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, asked the United Nations to seek amnesty for Bukovsky. That is unlikely, since his "crime" was passing to the West documentation of how psychiatry is used to suppress dissent-specifically, the case histories of six political protesters held in Soviet mental wards...
Schrag is correct, if obvious, in decrying "conformity." He may even be partially correct in blaming conformity on the WASP. But in calling for "diversity and dissent," he fails to supply enough of these qualities to his own polemic. And what would he propose for a WASP-free America? After half seriously nominating Bella Abzug, Muhammad Ali, and Johnny Cash for President, he suggests legalizing marijuana, abortion and homosexuality, plus "decentralizing" schools and police forces...