Word: segregationism
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Among other complaints which the group wants to raise are parietals, physical training, and compulsory expository writing for freshmen and sexual segregation of the Freshman Union. Imposition of these requirements by the administration, they state in their platform, "cannot be justified without student approval."
"I don't see how you can take this position," argues Dean Ford. "It leads to segregation. This is to isolate cultures in a way no national culture could stand. There are two main reasons we don't agree. One, we don't set up a course to teach any...
There are many ways to express opposition to unjust laws and unfair conditions. The sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960's were moving expressions of opposition to segregation laws. In addition, marches such as the 1963 Civil Rights March and the 1968 Poor People's March, helped...
Damage to Privilege. According to Steel, the court backed down from its historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when it ruled a year later that the states did not have to desegregate their schools immediately, but only "with all deliberate speed." In effect, said Steel, the court was...
No one can argue that income tax evasion-or winking at gambling, prostitution or even pot-is comparable to major, violent crime. Yet such common transgressions symbolize an important fact: some laws are simply petty, unrealistic, unenforceable or unjust. The discrepancies affect the most trivial as well as the most...