Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...termed in your open letter of March 9 our "special mission" in "the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Now this notion will not surprise those radical critics of capitalism who have long argued the dependence of corporate profits on racism and imperialism. It is more surprising to hear this argument from more respectable sources, indeed from the very establishment itself...
...President, let me speak frankly. I could accept your argument for political neutrality more easily if our teaching and research really gave the weight to a "continuing critique" of our society that your open letter suggests...
...question is how long Silverman has to make good. One of his old bosses, Bill Paley, thinks the test will come next fall; up to now he has not had time, so the argument goes, to show his stuff. Many others doubt that he can do much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that...
Graduate students themselves concur with Bowersock's argument that professors ideally are the appropriate tutorial leaders. John Gibbons, graduate student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
More specifically, the commission argues that the only viable way to maintain such high levels of federal funding is through the imposition of spectrum fees--charged to those who use the "public" airwaves. The argument goes as follows: Public broadcasting, if properly funded, provides a vital, public service, producing enriching and artistically sound programs. Commercial television, on the other hand, produces some sort of inferior, mind-rotting drivel--all in the name of the advertising market. Because commercial broadcasters limit access to a valuable resource, they should help fund the public system. Spectrum fees will provide a politically insulated, long...