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...hope that justice is not blind in the case of the "Billboard Bandits" [March 22] in Michigan. My verdict would be to "punish" the youths by nominating them for the Golden Fox Award being sponsored by Environmental Action, Inc., and to "sentence" the state highway officials to comply with the law by removing the remainder of the illegally situated billboards...
Decision to punish will reflect what is already an established bias for the rights of academicians to undisrupted peace and quiet over the rights of Third World people to life itself. This bias can be seen in Harvard's continuing sponsorship of Henry Kissinger, and those at Harvard who would eagerly take his place. The two rights come into conflict...
...current marijuana legislation is not a joke. Dope laws are used selectively to punish political "criminals" like John Sinclair, a White Panther leader who has been locked away for several years on a very minor marijuana offense. The New York Times reports the suicide during a bust of an Alabama student who faced jail on a second marijuana offense. Sitting in our dorms it is often difficult to remember that thousands of other Americans are sitting in jail for committing the "crime" of getting stoned with their friends...
...find the notion that a university or one of its units might "punish" a member because of political differences to be completely reprehensible. We are happy, therefore, that the Department of Government and various members of the Harvard community have laid to rest any speculation that your colleagues have such political punishment in store for you. At the same time, we fell that, just as it is improper to purge a colleague because we disagree with him, it is equally improper to mute fundamental disagreements because of personal friendship and respect...
While chastising Kissinger for his involvement in Administration strategy, the letter defends his acceptability in the Harvard community. Addressing Kissinger as 'Dear Colleague,' it says in part, "We find the notion that a university or one of its units might 'punish' a member because of political differences to be completely reprehensible...