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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:41:41 -0800
From: radtimes <resist@best.com>
Subject: How Our Universities Are Failing America
"Defending Civilization:
How Our Universities Are Failing America and
What Can Be Done About It" [.pdf]
http://www.goacta.org/Reports/defciv.pdf
Though short, this report from The American Council of Trustees and Alumni
(ACTA), a nonprofit co-founded by Lynne Cheney and Senator Joseph I.
Lieberman, has been getting quite a bit of media attention. The report is a
scathing condemnation of universities for being "the weak link in America's
response to the [September 11th] attack," a label earned in part because
faculty "invoked tolerance and diversity as antidotes to evil" and did not
discuss the "difference between good and evil." The report charges academia
with disseminating the message to "blame America first." ACTA states, "This
is not an argument for limiting free speech on college campuses. Indeed, the
robust exchange of ideas is essential to a free society. But it is equally
important -- and never more so than in these unsettling times -- to insist
that colleges and universities transmit our history and heritage to the next
generation." The report concludes with an appendix of named and numbered
professors and organizations who are part of the "weak link." Anyone
interested in debates over the function of universities or the composition
of curricula will want to read this.
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