Word: powerlessness
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...activities "very distasteful," but the college plans no action against him on the theory that his customers are guilty of plagiarizing-not he. Harvard Dean of Students Archie Epps has asked university lawyers how the school can proceed against the sharpsters. In fact, the colleges are virtually powerless to prove a given paper was plagiarized...
Freedom of speech is important. It is important because it provides the chance for powerless individuals, to affect the course of political events. Individuals representing institutions-such as the intended speakers for the YAF teach-in-already have power: They control the media; they direct the armed forces. They have the "freedom" to support and direct a vicious imperialist war. They have the power, to suppress protest against this war. When these people use their power in neglect of the people they officially represent, they must be stopped. The real issue, then, is finding the most effective means of stopping...
Berrigan: Well, we are that small and assailed and powerless group of people who are nonviolent in principle and who are willing to suffer for our beliefs in the hope of creating something very different for those who will follow us. It is we who feel compelled to ask, along with, let's say, Bonhoeffer or Socrates or Jesus, how man is to live as a human being and how his communities are to form and to proliferate as instruments of human change and of human justice; and it is we who struggle to do more than pose...
...else is pursuing a career. That makes for a considerable difference in perspective. Since we students are the only group who are paying instead of being paid to work here, we are the only people here who have an interest in keeping tuition low. Yet we seem to be powerless to prevent the University from arbitrarily raising tuition. Except for the Corporation, we are the only members of the immediate community with any economic interest in Harvard's investment policies. Yet the University last year ignored large-scale student protest and voted its investments in General Motors-and it vows...
...HAVE we undergraduates been so far powerless to protect and pursue our interests? Because we haven't organized ourselves. Student councils, like the HUC and RUS, and student-Faculty committees like the present ones, have always depended on either Faculty or administration for their existence, and have had no real student constituency. The Administration and Faculty are highly organized, closely allied in many ways, and firmly in control of the students. Because students have never tried to deal with them except as individuals, in fragmented groups and factions, through dependent committees, or in ad hoc mass movements, they have invariably...