Inside American Education (59 page)
50
“Basic Training,”
The Stanford Daily
, December 5, 1990, p. 1.
51
“Mandated Sensitivity,”
Campus
, Winter 1991, p. 12.
52
Andrew Zappala, “Free Speech Violations: A Sampling,”
Campus
, Fall 1990, p. 6.
53
Mary Ann Campo, “Abortion and the Brown Student,”
Brown Daily Herald
, March 2, 1990, p. 1.
54
“Officials Struggle to Curb Unplanned Pregnancies,”
U. The National College Newspaper
, February 1991, p. 12.
55
“Campus Pregnancy: A Lesson Unlearned,” U.
The National College Newspaper
, February 1991, p. 13.
56
“Multiculturism,”
The Cavalier Daily
, April 5, 1990, p. 2.
57
Robert Vega, “In Defense of Free Speech,”
The Wesleyan Review
(Wesleyan University), December 1989, p. 10.
58
Jonathan Bunce, “Race Relations Face Double Standards,”
Northwestern Review
, February 9, 1990, p. 3.
59
Benjamin Hart, Jr.,
Poisoned Ivy
(New York: Stein and Day, 1983), pp. 240-241.
60
Ibid.
, pp. 60-65.
61
Ibid.
, p. 68.
62
James B. Meigs, “College Papers Do the Right-Wing Thing,”
Rolling Stone
, October 5, 1989, p. 152.
63
Benjamin Hart,
Poisoned Ivy
, pp. 152-153, 155-163.
64
Ibid.
, pp. 161, 168-169, 171, 173.
65
Charles J. Sykes,
The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher Education
(Washington, D.C.: Regenery Gateway, 1990), p. 241.
66
Benjamin Hart, Jr.,
Poisoned Ivy
, pp. 220-223.
67
James McCutcheon, “Freshman Railroaded by COS,”
Dartmouth Review
, January 24, 1990, p. 7.
68
While this judgement is inevitably subjective, anyone can make his own subjective judgement by reading the essay, which was reproduced in the
Dartmouth Review
. Kieran Shields, “Reader’s Court: You Decide Baker’s Guilt,”
Dartmouth Review
, March 17, 1990, pp. 10, 12.
69
William F. Buckley, “Dartmouth Rides Again,”
Dartmouth Review
, February 28, 1990, p. 7.
70
See, for example, Hugh Restall, “College Rescinds Baker Suspension,”
Dartmouth Review
, April 4, 1990, p. 7; Andrew Baker, “Andrew Baker Set His Record Straight,”
Dartmouth Review
, April 24, 1991, p. 8; Robert Fogelin, “Sedgwick Acted Properly in Baker Case,”
The Dartmouth
, April 19, 1990, p. 4; Jeffrey Hart, “Baker Was Not the One Acting Without Honor,”
The Dartmouth
, April 24, 1990, p. 4; James Wright, “Sedgwick Has Been Victim of Vicious Attacks,”
The Dartmouth
, May 1, 1990, p. 4; Jeffrey Hart, “Wright’s Response to Baker-Sedgwick Defends an Egregious Wrong,”
The Dartmouth
, May 3, 1990, p. 4.
71
“Text of Kennedy’s Decision in Mosher Dismissal Case,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, October 2, 1985, p. 9.
72
Ibid.
73
Ibid.
, p. 11.
74
Ibid.
, pp. 11, 12.
75
Ibid.
, pp. 12, 13, 15, 16.
76
Ibid.
, pp. 12, 13, 14.
77
Ibid.
, p. 12.
78
Ibid.
79
Ibid.
80
Ibid.
, p. 13.
81
Ibid.
, p. 12.
82
Jerry Adler et al., “Taking Offense,”
Newsweek
, December 24, 1990, p.48.
83
Jeffrey Hart, “Selective Concern for Student Safety,”
Dartmouth Review
, December 7, 1988, p. 12.
84
Thorstein Veblen,
The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men
(New York: Sagamore Press, Inc., 1957), p. 69.
85
Charles Krauthammer, “Political Correctness Meets Patriotism,”
Campus Report from Accuracy in Academia
, March 1991, pp. 7, 8.
86
Joseph E. Gehring, Jr., “The Crisis in the University,”
Cornell Review
, February 28, 1991, pp. 6ff.
87
Martin Kaste, “MPIRG’s Organization and Politics Examined,”
The Carletonian
, September 30, 1988, p. 1.
88
Jenny Choo, “Goodbye, CalPIRG?”
Redwood Review
, October 3, 1990, p. 2.
89
Tony Abboud and Katherine Cooper, “Organization has Potential for Everybody: Mailing was Unfounded,”
The Carletonian
, September 23, 1988, p. 5.
90
Jenny Choo, “Goodbye, CalPIRG?”
Redwood Review
, October 3, 1990, p.2.
91
Darrell McKignen, “Special Funding Mechanism is Not Fair or Legitimate,”
The Carletonian
, September 23, 1988, p. 5.
92
Elizabeth Brinkley, “MassPIRG Funding Re-Examined,”
Wellesley News
, September 22, 1988, p. 1.
93
Ibid.
94
Elizabeth Brinkley, “MassPIRG Loses, Defeated by 9 Votes,”
Wellesley News
, April 20, 1989, p. 1.
95
Ibid.
, pp. 1, 3.
96
Jenny Choo, “Goodbye CalPIRG? UC Regents Eliminate the Negative Cheek-off System,”
Redwood Review
(University of California at Santa Cruz), October 3, 1990, p. 2.
97
Haward Salient
, December 1990, p. 11.
98
Marcus Mabry, “A View from the Front: My Life as a Member of the PC Patrol,”
Newsweek
, December 24, 1990, p. 55.
99
Art Macum, “Grad Theme House Called Apathetic,”
The Stanford Daily
, February 15, 1991, p. 1.
100
Ibid.
, p. 10.
101
Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, p. 217.
102
James High, “Beware, the Thought Police,”
Redwood Review
, October 3, 1990, p. 11.
103
“Deane Baker Discusses the U-M, Himself,”
Michigan Review
, November 1990, p. 8.
104
Marcus Mabry, “A View from the Front: My Life as a Member of the PC Patrol,”
Newsweek
, December 24, 1990, p. 55.
105
Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, p. 239.
106
Marcus Mabry, “A View from the Front: My Life as a Member of the PC Patrol,”
Newsweek
, December 24, 1990, p. 55.
107
Scott Heller, “Reeling from Harsh Attacks, Educators Weigh How to Respond to ‘Politically Correct’ Label,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, June 12, 1991, p. A16.
108
“Political Correctness,”
The Stanford Daily
, May 1991, p. 4.
109
Michael Kinsley, “P.C.B.S.,”
The New Republic
, May 20, 1991, p. 8.
110
Scott Heller, “Reeling from Harsh Attacks, Educators Weigh How to Respond to ‘Politically Correct’ Label,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, June 12, 1991, p. A16; “Mr. Bush and the Freedom to Hurt,”
The New York Times
, May 12, 1991, Section E, p. 16.
111
Former CBS news executive Fred Friendly posed the issue as whether a white student should be allowed to say to a black student: “You niggers stink. I don’t know why we ever let you in here. I wish your kind would all get out of here.” Eleni Kirkas and Eden Ouainton, “Panel Debates Free Speech,”
The Stanford Daily
, April 11, 1991, p. 1. The pervasive straining to find “covert racism” at campuses across the country should alone be enough to suggest that this kind of grossness is hardly the issue.
112
The earlier standard dates from 1896; the later from June 1990.
113
Andrew Zappala, “Free Speech Violations: A Sampling,”
Campus
, Fall 1990, p. 6.
114
Scott Heller, “Reeling from Harsh Attacks, Educators Weigh How to Respond to ‘Politically Correct’ Label,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, June 12, 1991, p. A16.
CHAPTER 8: TEACHING AND PREACHING
1
Professor X,
This Beats Working for a Living: The Dark Secrets of a College Professor
(Hew Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973), p. 18.
2
See, for example, Jonathan Eisenberg, “Emphasis on Teaching, Streamlining,”
The Stanford Daily
, April 6, 1990, p. 1; Christine Moll, “Shalala: University to Focus on Undergrads,”
The Badger Herald
(University of Wisconsin), February 8, 1990, PP. 1, 3.
3
“Can’t Fire Professor for Ethical Lapses, Rutgers Told,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 15, 1990, p. A2.