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...federal, have found otherwise many times. Is it really necessary to point out that busing is an old invention? Students have been bused to school for decades. The real issue must be the particular school and its quality, not the means used to get students to class. If Mr. Ferrara's suggestion is to be taken seriously, an informed and completely free choice of public schools should be open to all students and families. To accomplish such a plan, the extent of busing would have to be increased far beyond the highest projections of its scope under the present Garrity...
...Ferrara speaks of his fears about "...freedom from aggression" and acts of force originating in the power of government. For ten years, the Boston School Committee created socially based inequities in the distribution of children to schools of marked differences in quality. This is aggression, and a contemptible display of racial discrimination. This is an example of Mr. Ferrara's tendency to ignore racial and economic realities in our society while expressing a desire to protect individuals from the aggression of public officials...
...changing busing patterns, Mr. Ferrare suggested punishing those responsible in public authority and ordering their discriminatory activities stopped. Members of the Boston School Committee were brought to court and asked by Judge Garrity to indicate the manner in which they would act to correct the injustices they fostered. Mr. Ferrara must be aware that they responded with a vague plan after much delay, and denied any wrong doing. This continued ten years of delay in the face of yet another call to attention. Punishment would have accomplished nothing. When asking did not work and prodding failed, the Court was forced...
...cannot in clear conscience continue reading the pro-UFW rebuttals directed at Peter Ferrara's article entitled "Has Chavez Fooled Harvard" without making a stand supporting his article. I was very pleased to see his article and equally perturbed to read all of the attacks against it--with each different reply coming up with their own figures supporting their own beliefs...
...whole point is that there are two sides to every story and unfortunately Harvard has been overwhelmed with only one side for too long a time. I truthfully admire Peter Ferrara for presenting the other side and I fully agree with his article. I suggest that his article presents the real conditions in the farmworkers' life more truthfully than any other article I've read in the Crimson. I support Peter Ferrara wholeheartedly and I hope other people will seriously consider his article and its importance. Tom Pura