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...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
Donald T. Campbell, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University...
...ACLU describes the Skokie and Chicago actions both as "flat-out violations of the First Amendment." Protesters picketed ACLU offices in New York two weeks ago because Union lawyers had been representing Nazis, and some members have quit as a result. Says Victor Rosenblum, Professor of Law at Northwestern: "I don't accept that the same points are involved in marches by civil rights groups seeking to assert basic constitutional rights, and the efforts of Nazis to tell Jews in Skokie they belong back in the oven...
...protects the expression of even the most reprehensible ideas, most constitutional scholars do not agree. Insists University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "One of the functions of the First Amendment is to provide a safety valve, to allow people a chance to blow off steam." Concerning Marquette Park, Northwestern University Law Professor Nathaniel Nathanson says flatly: "The coalition is clearly entitled to march, and the city is entitled to enough notice to prepare...
...left behind get angrier." Before their eyes dance television programs and commercials that show everybody enjoying a cornucopia of consumer goods-as if everybody should have them as a natural right. They feel no stake in a society that seems to deny them the opportunity to acquire those goods. Northwestern Political Scientist Ted Gurr, co-author of the 1969 Eisenhower Commission report on violence in America, argues that "the poor, and especially poor blacks, don't share our middle-class values for other people's property. The goods were there for the taking...