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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
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Subject: Re: Eight MIT students arrested in Apartheid protest
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 09:24:16 EST
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I was wondering when MIT was going to tear down the shanties.

Divestment of South African holdings is by no means a clear cut issue in
my mind no matter how much you oppose the apartheid system. This is
despite the fact that many people with supreme confidence in their own
virtue have decided that divestment is good.

All rights are limited if you believe in rights for more than one person
and/or more than one right as the rights of different people and
organizations frequently conflict as do various different rights.

Whether you consider the shanties "symbolic speech" or whatever I don't
see any overwhelming right for them to stay there forever.  There were
there for quite a few days.  I saw them as did plenty of other people.
Any point that was supposed to have been made by physical shanties has
been made.

Academic freedom and tolerance have to do with diversity of *ideas*.
For example, allowing people to speak in favor of aparteid, slavery,
anarchy, unilateral disarmament, legalizing all drugs (including
chemical warfare?), etc., etc., despite the fact that you may (as I do)
disagree with these ideas.  The gross intolerance of Dartmouth towards
its conservative students is pretty disgracful in my mind.
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