Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James A. Garland, chairman of the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Pofessors, said yesterday the faculty union will provide moral and legal support to all six professors. Emphasizing that the tenure system was designed to prevent universities from penalizing outspoken professors, Garland said firing the BU. professors "would be a terrible violation of academic freedom...
...going to be a very difficult decision to deal with," William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine, said yesterday. "It's a good basic legal principle to be able to refuse treatment. But this is not always in the best interest of the patient. They are making rulings that seem to be helping the rights of people, but don't seem to be helping their welfare," he added...
...This represents a fairly predictable extension of legal principles," Gutheil said. Since the medication prescribed alters thinking, it interferes with the patients's legal right to freedom of speech, the court reasoned in its decision...
Jude DiGiovanni, a parking attendant from Newton who just turned 20 years old, also said yesterday teenagers are having no more difficulty obtaining alcohol than they did when the legal drinking age was 18. He added that only about half of the bars he has visited check identification. "And all you have to do is go up to anyone who is 20 and they'll buy it for you," he said...
...drinking age should be even higher. Linda Derian of Watertown said yesterday. The most important factor in assessing the effectiveness of the higher legal age is whether it reduces automobile accidents among teenagers, she added...