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...also suffering from a dearth of fresh issues compelling enough to mobilize a right-wing populist crusade. The causes that once launched fervent insurgencies do not seem as pressing as they did during the out-of-power 1970s. "The reason there is little thunder from the right," says Burton Pines, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, "is that the atmospheric conditions have to be right for thunder." Conservative indignation is difficult to sustain, even though Reagan has failed to follow through with his social agenda and is about to sign an arms deal with the Soviet Union. Explains Lance Tarrance...
...paradox ultimately raises the question about how legitimate it is for Columbia to have a Business School in the first place. To condemn Edelman on the grounds that he was violating standards of the acadmey rings hollow. Columbia Business School Dean Thomas Burton sounds hopelessly naive when he says that Edleman would "bias the academic atmosphere" by offering a monetary incentive to students studying how to pull-off a corporate raid effectively. How academic a setting could a how-to-corporate-raid class ever be? How does one study in an intellectual way the practicing of making lots and lots...
...sacred? Why should it be something other than just a place to learn the tools for a future career? For reasons which are not easy to define, it is good to believe that a classroom must be kept uncontaminated by careerism. And thus it is nice to hear Dean Burton waxing metaphysical on the sanctity of learning, even as he heads a school whose purpose is to train businessmen...
...Burton asked Edelman to withdraw his offer, but Edelman said he couldn't withdraw an offer made in good faith. When faced with the threat of no longer being able to teach the class, he agreed to withdraw the offer only if Burton would come to class and explain the situation, Jacobi said...
...address to the students in the seminar on Tuesday, Burton said: "Both I and the faculty wish it to be very clear that the action is not a criticism of Professor Edelman, who has behaved in a manner honorable and in good faith throughout discussions of this matter, and has accepted the decision of the faculty despite his disagreement with...