Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minimum of $5000 will have to be raised in order to receive official University sanction, since Harvard refuses to maintain an endowed lecture for any smaller fund. Once this sum is pledged, the lecture would still require approval by the Corporation...
...interesting to note as a corollary to these arguments that an American commits a crime not by traveling to Cuba but by re-entering the United States after such a trip. To make a critizen's return to his own country a crime is to sanction banishment in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It has always been recognized that a person has the right to reside in the country of which he is a citizen, and no court has ever declared the simple exercise of the rights of a citizen criminal. Yet the American who travels to Cuba...
...last two years, the Albany cops had swept us off the streets as fast as we had appeared (the charges: disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault, attempted murder, parading without a permit, running a red-light), the one white newspaper had made no report, and thought it had legal sanction to act (the first amendment to the Constitution, section 242 of the U.S. Criminal Code), the Federal Government had made no move to protect the rights of its citizens to petition and assemble...
...administration faced the facts and implications of the present parietal rules and stopped playing ostrich. Dean Monro has spoken out honestly and courageously. No one can deny that the present rules not only facilitate sexual intercourse in the Harvard Houses but also give the impression that Harvard lends its sanction to this--indeed encourages it. No other legitimate institution invites unmarried men and women to share the conveniences of a bedroom. Whether this is good or bad, desirable or undesirable, is a matter which could be--indeed should be discussed...
...CORE demonstrators finally win this or a similar case, it will give sit-in protests on private property covered by fair housing statutes a legal sanction...