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According to FAC's introductory pamphlet, the group seeks to restore intellectual freedom and reasoned debate which has been lost to growing intolerance of "radical elements within academia." This intolerance has been "often expressed in policies and practices that infringe upon First Amendment rights...
...told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly. He could eat these guys alive," says the quant. For someone like this, academia loses reality, and from Wall Street's viewpoint, a professor with a scholarly paper is "like a two-year- old coming with something he drew...
Despite this effort, the high cost of higher education remains a large obstacle to minorities who want to pursue careers in academia. As a whole groups such as Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans come from poorer backgrounds than their white counterparts...
Harvard itself has yet to suffer from the effects of the dearth of minorities beginning careers in academia, however, according to Knowles...
Meanwhile, our friends at less prestigious colleges have the luxury of actually enjoying their break from academia--with ample time to prepare for the work of the approaching spring semester...