Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of those who testified at the hearing said that the existing laws were not only unjust, but a corrupting influence in society...
...feel strongly that legitimate protests by students for the abolition of unjust and unfair laws is a freedom that should be guaranteed by every government. To sentence students to jail terms without a fair trial for verbal insults to police officers is a mockery of the heritage of democratic principles which originated in Greece...
True, one may suspect that it is unjust for Calley to be the only man imprisoned for the My Lai affair. True, one may wish that clemency eventually be shown to the draft evaders. One may wish, in addition, that both the righteous right and the righteous left soften their positions. Yet the Coffin proposal smacks as much of an ill-considered trade-off as it does of Christian forgiveness. The two situations are really unrelated, both legally and morally. Each therefore deserves to be judged on its own merits, not as part of a jubilee...
...students should extend the olive branch. If the Faculty will not accept reforms, so the argument runs, let us at least settle for what we can get--limited student participation on the CRR, for example. Although perhaps well-intended, this view is hopelessly cautious: it asks accession to an unjust situation merely because the CRR seems to have staying power...
...referendum today is predestined to failure because most students make simple assumptions about student discipline which are antithetical to the current structure of the CRR. Students feel that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is too "elastic" and therefore unjust; and while most have never seen, much less read, the Resolution, they are right that it could stand revision. The ratio of students and Faculty on the CRR, and voting guidelines for Committee decisions, are stumbling blocks for those who feel that students should be judged by their peers, or at least by a number of peers equal...