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...first indication of how Marcos reacts under these volatile conditions may come this week if Aquino and her followers go through with their plan to stage a 24-hour strike. Marcos hinted last week that he might use force to quell any outbreak of civil disobedience. Stung by world opinion and holed up in a palace surrounded by barbed-wire barricades, Marcos may try to reassert his power. If that should happen, the only tempering influence left may be Cory Aquino. "She must steer a moderate course," said Businessman Jaime Ongpin late last week. "If she opts for violence...
Nonetheless, some students say that the Lee incident is merely the latest in a series of attempts by the Law School to quell increasingly outspoken student activism...
...think the administration or Dean Upton has a particularly evil intent to quell free speech," says third-year student Douglas Hagerman. "I just don't think that they have an adequate understanding of the implications of being called in [to Upton's office...
Granholme adds, however, that the Ad Board's action could potentially quell student speech. "I'm pretty sure that defense witnesses might be reluctant to testify about things that they may have participated in," she says...
...Crimson last spring called for the abolition of the CRR, calling it an illegitimate body used to quell political protest. Today's view, however, claims that illegitimate bodies are acceptable, as long as they handle complaints by both students and faculty...