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CRITICS, HOWEVER, CONTEND that the widespread student opposition to CLT is fueled less by personal fear than by domineering faculty members trying to advance their own political causes. Rather than standard bearers in a battle to support education, CLT backers say, these students are simply stooges for an entrenched group of academic leaders...
Francis Faulkner, a spokesperson for CLT, says that the Boston headquarters for the petition has been receiving more than 20 calls a day from parents complaining that teachers have been encouraging their students to vote against the ballot initiative...
...addition, officials at UMass/Boston held a training session on Question 3 last week at the university's Arlington Street campus. And according to Faulkner, a professor at the University of Lowell "cancelled regularly scheduled classes...just to have a bull session on CLT...
Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr, who opposes CLT, nonetheless agrees that university administrators may have a personal interest in seeing the petition fail. He points to numerous Massachusetts state college administrators who he says earn more than $100,000 per year, as well as a new $22 million telephone system and a $500,000 cable television system at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
PRESSURE AGAINST CLT has undeniably been coming from the highest levels of the state's educational establishment. Two weeks ago, for example, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) held a press conference to announce its formal opposition to the initiative...