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...disobedience. In this specific instance the protesters were wrong, but that does not mean that all acts of civil disobedience are unjustifiable. If the goal is for the University to divest completely, then activists should choose forms of protest both more expedient and more justifiable than trespass or illegal restraint to accomplish...
While the theory looks promising, Ostriker shows proper scientific restraint. "We still don't know that there are such things as cosmic strings," he says, "or that they are necessarily superconductors or will in fact carry large currents. But all these things are quite possible. Within a few years, superconducting strings will have either transformed our view of the large-scale universe -- or be entirely forgotten...
...education has been a program searching for a consensus since it arrived in the schools at the turn of the century, the brainchild of stern progressive-era reformers, mostly doctors and other upper-crust male professionals. The idea, the only idea, was to enforce sexual restraint. Reformers believed that enlightened mass education could help banish venereal disease, prostitution, masturbation and sex outside marriage. The notion of "scientific" sex education arose as a way of deflecting the curious from actual sexual behavior. Instruction, said a 1912 committee, "should aim to keep sex consciousness and sex emotions at the minimum." Then...
...policies will have little effect unless they are backed by a peer pressure that can result only from common understandings built through informed discussion. Of necessity, moreover, the rules the University adopts only define minimum obligations. Each professor has a personal responsibility to decide what further forms of self-restraint are advisable. Hence, the standards individual faculty members set for themselves are likely to be as important as the rules the University promulgates...
California voters exercise judicial restraint. During her nine years as Chief Justice of California, Rose Bird voted to overturn every death-penalty case that came before her. This made her unpopular in a state where 80% of the voters favor the death penalty. During the noisy campaign to unseat her, Bird maintained her dignity. Asked by reporters how she was taking her defeat, she smiled and said, "Just like...