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will actually head the new group, esti mates that there are at least 10,000 known Marxists teaching on universi ty campuses in the United States to day. To anyone who has spoken, as I have, on many of those campuses, the estimate sounds eminently reasonable. AIA proposes to recruit volunteers preferably senior citizens — to monitor classes in political science, history and sociology at targeted uni versities beginning this September, to report instances of “political bias based on incorrect information.’ As may be imagined, AIA’s an nounced intention is about as popular among liberal academic spokesmen as the proverbial skunk in a submarine. The monitors it plans to put quietly in the backs of classrooms were prompt ly denounced as “intellectual goon squads” by the executive director of the American Political Science Asso ciation. More shrewdly, both the gen eral secretary of the American Asso ciation of University Professors and Harvard's vice president for public af fairs charged that ASA was trying to force faculty members to support con servative views — a false accusation, but one we will no doubt be hearing ad nauseam. There are obvious pitfalls to be avoided, of course, but Accuracy in Academia’s basic idea is a sound one. What America’s Marxist professors dread is not that they will (or even could) be forced to support conserva tive views, but that what they have hitherto told highly impressionable undergraduates without risk of con tradiction may hereafter have to be uttered within earshot of mature Americans who know better and who may take it down and later quote them verbatim. But if,Socrates didn’t mind being quoted, why should they? © 1985 by NI “You're nothing but a rotten male chauvinist HUMAN!
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Key West Citizen
Key West, Florida, US
Tue, Aug 27, 1985
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