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Made GS do something against their conscience and then
made them take the rap for it.  Not man enough to do
his own dirty work.  Empire builder.

In the Army.

Not anybody's commanding officer.

You can't rise in that kind of organization without developing some
ass-kissing habits.
It is like removing a book from the library

Academic freedom gives people the right to read.

AIR and SDC are denying people the right to read.

Banning moderated bulletin boards is like banning
magazines with editors.

There was not one actual complaint at Stanford about
a bulletin board that has been available for a year
and a half.  It is a case of pre-emptive surrender.

Stanford got a legal opinion that they had a legal
right to do it, but didn't bother with any opinion
on whether it was compatible with principles of
academic freedom.

For a month and a half, a gaggle of University vice-presidents
considered the matter in confidence.  There was no
consultation with faculty over whether there was
an issue of academic freedom.

Other organizations operating computers at Stanford
have merely yawned.

The Stanford Daily seems to be on the side of censorship, judging
from the way they headlined their story and the lead
paragraph.  Students, especially the socially active ones,
are given to fads.  I expect some students were in the lead
as advocates of prohibition and for censoring Mark Twain.