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...column says that last Spring's decision to set up an Afro-American Studies department was "a hasty agreement under pressure" and "a victory for black militants more complete than was accomplished at Columbia or Berkeley, where administrators were under greater duress...
...order has now become of paramount importance to the university because of the emergence of that minority on campus who seek to replace reason with power," said the report. Should there ever be a repetition of last spring's troubles, they warned, "the university must not negotiate under duress. There must be no amnesty for infractions of the student conduct code...
...Establishment, under duress...
There are no grounds for the Faculty to stand pat at this juncture. The argument that to act now would be to act under duress, to condone unconscionable tactics, is a false one on two counts. It rests, first, on the assumption that the forcible expulsion of several deans from University Hall was engaged in or endorsed by a large group; and, second, on the idea that all stages of the present crisis are irrevocably bound together as one, under no circumstances to be treated separately. A student who takes seriously the question raised by this strike, as most...
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and member of the CEP, said that the administration and Faculty has responded to the legitimate demands of students and that "a decision will not be made under moral duress." Wilson blamed the participants in the sit-in for preventing the Faculty meeting from taking place...