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...AAUP's statement contended that attempts to suppress views like William Shockley's are "undermining the integrity of the academic communities," but it never thought to enumerate the attempts or name any underminers--probably because there haven't been many. Angry students shouted Shockley down at Staten Island Community College last fall, but outside of that, he's been refused permission to speak only by two groups with public views much like the AAUP's, the Yale Political Union this week and the Law School Forum here last fall. Like the AAUP, these groups eloquently defended academic freedom, and like...
Fortunately, since misery loves company, the AAUP and the Law School Forum aren't alone in painting a pathetic though unsubstantiated picture of pioneers of academic territory, bravely questioning accepted orthodoxy despite the powerful resistance of an entrenched establishment. To name just two, Shockley and the New York Times push the same line. But in fact this is not new and uncharted territory. Shockley's belief that blackness generally means stupidity has been around for a long time, and a glance at today's United States would show that it represents not a heroic challenge to established orthodoxy...
...wanted to address the question at all, instead of defending Shockley from imaginary attempts to suppress him, the AAUP should have attacked his real views...
...wake of the June elimination of tenure at the college, and the dismissal of 13 faculty members, 11 of whom had tenure, the Bloomfield chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has filed a civil suit which claims that the college's reasons for the removal of the tenure system are invalid...
Because tenure in a private college has not been challenged in the superior courts, both Allshouse and AAUP officials consider Bloomfield to be an important case. Allshouse said, however, that Bloomfield could not finance a long judicial process