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...have far wider implications. Harvard will probably seek to convince the NLRB that a medical area employees group does not have the right to form a union local among the 800 clerical and technical workers in the medical area. The organizing committee will ask the NLRB this month to sanction a union-forming election at the medical area, and Harvard contends that the only appropriate union for clerical and technical workers here is a University-wide...
Brewster said that he will recommend to the Yale Corporation that any group or individual guilty of "willful and persistent disruption of expression" be subject to the "sanction of suspension for not less than a year." The faculty did not vote on this issue...
...More than 200 colleges, mostly in the West, have rodeo teams or clubs, though the National Collegiate Athletic Association does not sanction competition because many college rodeos offer cash prizes...
...against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Ford charged that Douglas had received an annual retainer of $12,000 from the Albert Parvin Foundation, which reportedly had underworld connections in Las Vegas. Ford also denounced the Justice for writing an article for Evergreen Review in which he seemed to sanction violent revolution in America. Waving a copy of the magazine, Ford pointed out that Douglas' article appeared in the salacious company of photos of nude women. In the course of his tirade, Ford made the brash statement that an impeachable offense is what a majority of the House says...
Gradually the notion of majority rule developed, and got its philosophical sanction from John Locke, who greatly influenced the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...