We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didnt he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors? Thats the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then Ill tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and were the raw material! But were a bunch of raw material[s] that dont mean to have any process upon us, dont mean to be made into any product, dont mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! Were human beings! There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part; you cant even passively take part, and youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:05:40 +0000