Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council postponed action on a measure that would have partially addressed this problem by asking City Manager Robert W. Healy and the Rent Control Board to draft new regulatory language allowing landlords to bequeath individual units to their surviving heirs...
...November 28 Crimson, Daniel Baer explained that "Harvard students are bored with tabling and rallies. That's why COCA's recent actions were so appropriate." It is difficult to understand how undergraduate apathy with regard to the El Salvador issue makes the draft notices so appropriate. It might be true that many students have not involved themselves with COCA's cause, and this is probably true for a variety of reasons: perhaps some students who work in addition to studying just plain don't care (though that is hard to believe). The point is that these people (myself included) have...
Baer seems proud of the effectiveness of COCA's draft notices. He says that "It is understandable that some students have been frightened or upset by COCA's recent tactics. But their fear and anger should not be ultimately directed at COCA." He says instead that we should direct our anger at the right-wing terror of our government. I happen to agree with him that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with...
...express their views to me. I disagree that free speech is involved at all. My conception of the constitutional freedom of speech is that, as far as consent is concerned, anything goes. I think that the public political discourse must be completely free of censorship and limitation. But my draft notice was not in the public discourse; it was a private communication, addressed to me and placed in my locked mailbox. For me, this makes the draft notice an issue about privacy. Had there been a poster on a wall, or a note slipped under my door, or a rally...
However, there's still one big difference between Nebraska and Harvard. Walk into any bar in Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell...