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These are perhaps more technical points, but it becomes obvious that this resolution stands upon weak ground, especially legal ground. The Council asks the University to intentionally subvert a constitutionally passed federal law because certain individuals would rather not face the consequences of their own civil disobedience. The resolution is both inappropriate and unethical...
Several council members were highly vocal last night in their opposition to the resolution, questioning whether Harvard should-as other schools have already done-effectively subvert the purpose of the federal regulations...
...maintenance of any semblance of social order depends on just such respect between a government and citizens who voluntarily submit to its structures. Harvard does not stand above the law, and should not lend its institutional dignity and status as an important opinion-making entity to an attempt to subvert federal legislation...
...scofflaw spirit, whatever its undetermined origins, is being encouraged unwittingly by government at many levels. The failure of police to enforce certain laws is only the surface of the problem; they take their mandate from the officials and constituents they serve. Worse, most state legislatures have helped subvert popular compliance with the federal 55 m.p.h. law, some of them by enacting puny fines that trivialize transgressions. On a higher level, the Administration in Washington has dramatized its wish to nullify civil rights laws simply by opposing instead of supporting certain court-ordered desegregation rulings. With considerable justification, environmental groups...
...much more deeply protectionist than it is now. If it does, the results, for both the U.S. and the world economy, could be devastating. The principles of free trade remain essentially valid; the logic of protectionism remains beguiling and essentially self-destructive. Consider one example of how protections can subvert the economy. The American machine-tool industry recently joined the lineup of those seeking protection from foreign competition. The industry has been seriously hurt by the recession and by imports of cheaper or better machine tools from Japan and other countries. Since machine tools are essential to a growing...