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...truth is that Harvard is no different from other corporations, and pressure tactics are just as appropriate and necessary here as anywhere else. Students, and workers especially, have virtually no say in university decision-making. If a large portion of the Harvard community believes that university policies are unjust, Harvard offers nothing more than infrequent token meetings with administrators. We all prefer to be part of a university with democratic structures in place to ensure that policies are accountable to students, faculty, and workers. But the incredibly authoritarian way Harvard operates ensures that broad university problems will only be resolved...

Author: By Matthew R. Skomarovsky, | Title: In Defense of ‘Coercion’ | 3/20/2002 | See Source »

...year-old Edward A. Gargan of Boston went to jail for two years because he refused to fight in Vietnam: he felt America's war there was unjust. Thus began a lifelong attachment to a continent which, at that time, he had not even seen. Gargan would go on to spend 15 years traversing Asia as a New York Times correspondent, covering stories from India to China. He says he wrote his meandering travelogue The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Knopf; 322 pages) for two reasons: to fill in some of the blanks from a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Way | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...essential to the doctrine of civil disobedience that those who…violate laws and break rules accept the consequences of that.” After all, what does protest mean if it costs you nothing to protest? The point is that you feel strongly enough about something unjust that you are willing to defy it and make a statement—like civil rights activists sitting in at segregated lunch counters. (By this definition, some Harvard protestors are anti-traffic. But hey, that’s another column...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Punishment Validates Protest | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...violates the American principle of individual autonomy (every person must be treated equally regardless of personal characteristics like race or gender). Loury contrasts the “good” of individual autonomy with the “good” of attempting, “because of an unjust history, to reduce inequalities of wealth and power between racial groups.” His conclusion, though based upon a “liberal” commitment to fighting inequality, is that there are no easy answers: if we can, we ought to create policies that ignore race, but sometimes...

Author: By Divya A. Mani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glenn Loury: Shades of Black | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...operating within a system that is incredibly unjust from its origins,” she said...

Author: By Elliott N. Neal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Political Strategists Discuss Minority Politics | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

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