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What's fascinating about the B.U. case is not the flippant insensitivity of administrators like Carter and Silber. This is to be expected. What's fascinating is the reaction of the B.U. student body to the new dorm policy...
COLLEGE students, and especially B.U. students, should know by now that at the bureaucratized university of the 1980s, they are essentially powerless. The administrators don't care what students think. They don't even want to hear it. Their philosophy--"Je suis I'universite"--is inspired by one of Silber's role models, the late Louis XIV of France...
...Silber sends undercover photographers to student protests to take pictures, keeps files on student leaders, and twice during the 1970s called in the Boston Tactical Police Force to supress student protests...
...confidence in his administration and has attempted to boot him out of office. Some accuse him of refusing pay raises and tenure to professors who disagree with him. Last January, when the professors attempted to form a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at B.U., Silber took them to court and prevented the affiliation...
...student front, Silber arrested and suspended demonstrators as recently as three years ago, when the hapless B.U. eight protested for divestment using the tactics of civil disobedience. In 1986 Silber threatened to expel student Josef Abrahamowitz and three friends who hung a pro-divestment banner out of a dorm window. Abrahamowitz took the case to court and won, arguing that students who hung "Go, Mets" banners out their windows were not met with the same repression. Now, dissatisfied with merely crushing public expression of students' First Amendment rights, Silber is trying to force students to stop having sex and throwing...