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Black students did not enter Hunt Hall to negate the concept of "academic freedom." Their intention was rather to suggest to the University that such a blatant insult to their integrity as the proposed course would cause a breakdown in the relationship between black students and the University; to further suggest that academic freedom could not be used as a pretext for degrading the black community at Harvard or across the U.S. When 109 supposedly intelligent men can condone the perpetration of such an obvious insult, under the guise of "academic freedom," then it is time to seriously question...
...allowed to go unchallenged by the same professor who signed the Hunt Hall counter protest--some of whom were eminent geneticists. I suppose it takes a little guts to speak out against the majority opinion. Be silent then, but do not expect that the black community will accept such insult as a mere expression of "academic freedom...
...found a rigidly stratified culture that relied on the proverb as a guide through the thicket of social life. The Samoans had proverbs for every human exchange, says Milner: "To pay respect, to express pleasure, sympathy, regret, to make people laugh, to blame or criticize, to apologize, to insult, thank, cajole, ask a favor, say farewell." Intrigued, he collected thousands of these pithy sayings...
...Capitol Hill, North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin denounced the experiment as "nitpicking of the nittiest kind." Nathan Walkomir, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, called the plan "a classic example of bureaucratic stupidity and arrogance." One Justice Department lawyer found the study "an insult to our integrity." Said he: "The long-term effect will be to drive us right out of the department...
...Annie Wauneka, the council's first squaw, rose to ask if the 1968 Civil Rights Act forbade the tribe to banish unwanted whites from the reservation. When he heard her question, local OEO Chief Ted Mitchell, 32, laughed sardonically. To Mrs. Wauneka, Mitchell's laugh was an insult. The next time she saw him, she snapped: "You ready to laugh some more?" Then she smacked the Harvard Law School graduate several times across the face. The following day, two Navajo policemen, acting on council orders, packed Mitchell into his pickup truck and hustled him off the reservation...