Hi Candice - not being privy to the arcana of US academe, it seemed
to me alarming enough, given many of the oped pieces I read in the NY
Times, the new anti-terrorist legislation, and various other moves or
prevailing mores which marginalise dissent as "treacherous". After
all, remember what happened to Muriel Rukeyser in a similar
atmosphere. I can't think but these things are going to have real
affects, and even it is a beat up, it is, as I said, a swallow. It's
taking time for us to recognise what is happening in our worlds, but
they're beginning to filter through -
Cheers
A
>I don't understand why you posted this, Alison: it's a lazy rehash by the
>Guardian's LA local-interest correspondent (who mainly covers Hollywood with
>all due shallowness) of a story from mid-November about a conservative
>"watchdog" group that briefly scandalized academia with a list of 100
>academics it deemed "unpatriotic." The implied link to funding cuts for
>courses taught by the ACTA 100 appears to be extremely tenuous at best,
>since this group plays no role in academic funding and has little or no
>influence in academia, so far as I know, despite founder Lynne Cheney's past
>celebrity. The fact that a few faculty members at two or three schools have
>made this allegation hardly amounts to evidence of such influence, and even
>the spurious implication that liberal antiwar academics are _the_ target is
>undermined by reference to Arab and Muslim student complaints about
>conservative professors' racist remarks in the classroom. Moreover, many
>teach-ins were held (and reported to have been successful) at campuses
>across the country on Veterans Day--November 12th--the day after the ACTA
>100 list was reported in the US press--but Duncan Campbell doesn't rehash
>that related story.
>
>Am I missing something newsworthy here?
>
>Candice
>
>
>
>on 12/20/01 4:19 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Another disturbing swallow...
>>
>> A
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>> At 1:20 PM +0000 20/12/2001, Guardian Unlimited wrote:
>>> Today, Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles says course funds are threatened
>>> and professors denounced and suspended for organising teach-ins on
>>> the war and voicing criticism of American foreign policy.
>>>
>>> The universities of the United States often become the battlegrounds
>>> on which ideological and political wars are waged so it should be no
>>> surprise that there have been some metaphorical skirmishes taking
>>> place on campuses over the last three months.
>>>
>>> What is interesting is that it is the academics rather than the
>>> students that are getting involved more publicly in the dust-ups.
>>>
>>> Liberal academics who have organised teach-ins on the war, voiced
>>> opposition or criticised American foreign policy, claim that they
>>> have been identified as unpatriotic and that funding of their courses
>>> is now at risk.
>>>
>>> They blame the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), the
>>> conservative watchdog group founded by Lynne Cheney, wife of the
>>> vice-president, and Senator Joe Lieberman, for targeting them.
>>>
>>> * Read on here
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,621053,00.html
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