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...last sentence reads like a phrase from an SDS leaflet; the poor resent the restrictions on their behavior, the intrusions into their privacy which they must tolerate to receive welfare benefits. Even the liberals who don't care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise...
Coles cites SDS' response to riot-control in Roxbury last March as an example of activist thinking spawned in academic isolation. SDS at the time demanded that police--as enforcers of a repressive status quo--be withdrawn from Roxbury. Coles sharply criticized SDS for taking an ideological stance toward an immediate problem, for ignoring the plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
...people in Roxbury--regardless of what the leaders of SDS or I have to think about it--want to get into the system rather than leave it. The families I work with want to be able to get better service at the Boston City Hospital, they want garbage collection more frequently, they want better heating, they want welfare workers who will help them out. They are not going to take to the streets in order to storm the Winter Palace--there is no Winter Palace to storm...
...bust. Some students dropped a heavy potted tree from an overpass onto parked police cars and then finished off the windshield with bricks. Many windows in administration and classroom buildings were broken. Two fires were started, one destroying ten year's research of a man who had spoken against SDS policies...
Other faculty members who have expressed interest in the course are: Robert M. Coles, research psychiatrist at UHS; Joseph L. Featherstone, graduate student in history and associate editor of the New Republic; Barbara N. Cohn, lecturer in General Education; and Paul Potter, a founder of SDS and instructor in philosophy...