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...Americans worry so much about their civil liberties and not about those of their international guests? Recent increases in government monitoring of U.S. citizens such as Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agencies to access the records of public libraries, have provoked much outrage. Little, however, has been said about the treatment of visiting students. The Harvard administration has also chosen to wait out the decision and see how other universities respond first. But this strategy is too timid. MIT president Charles M. Vest has been outspoken about the need to maintain freedom and diversity in universities...
...tapes that Jubran showed to the audience at the Science Center on Monday are grim reminders of the intrusive powers granted to various U.S. security agencies by the Patriot Act, such as the ability to invade the privacy of citizens whose only crime is the exercise of their First Amendment rights...
Because of the Patriot Act, the FBI can now access medical, school and library records of any U.S. resident without a warrant. Perhaps even more chilling, the FBI can prevent the subject of an inquiry from discovering that his or her records were searched...
Rami Sarafa ’07, an Arab-American Harvard student grilled Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman on his vote in favor of the PATRIOT...
...response that drew applause, Lieberman cited the recent arrest of almost 800 immigrants and foreign nationals as an “un-American” abuse of the government’s power. The best thing about the PATRIOT Act, Lieberman, said, was that Congress had installed a sunset clause...