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...view? I am ashamed to admit that my university does not currently have an atmosphere that fosters the free exchange of ideas on this topic. Anyone who speaks publicly against the Living Wage risks being demonized, and the committee has chosen to offer the community no way to express its views except by making a public appearance. We ought to offer people a way to express themselves that is not punishing and yet is likely to be given some weight. (Yes, you can write an e-mail, but you can guess how much weight these have been given...
...principled people began to insult Harvard students to avoid hearing from them. Harvard faculty said that Harvard students were too uninformed to be listened to and that we could not possibly expect to learn anything from them. One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster into saying what the pollster wanted them to say. Another began loudly exclaiming, “This is not a democratic process. This is not a democratic process!” The stands these professors...
...Anyone who speaks publicly against the Living Wage risks being demonized and the committee has chosen to offer the community no way to express its views except by making a public appearance,” Hoxby wrote...
According to Hoxby, her suggestions for an undergraduate or graduate student referendum were similarly dismissed. “One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster into saying what the pollster wanted them to say,” Hoxby wrote...
...against the machine. Instead, they sing of a struggle that rages within ourselves. OAR is born of a revolution against everything that is superfluous to who we are—the hold of our homes, our possessions and our wealth. Almost all of the group’s songs express a haunting but invigorating drive to throw it all away, to leave and lose one’s posessions and one’s self. “Come with me and let yourself go,” they cry, “let yourself go, go, go, let yourself...