Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement presumes that students violate "academic freedom" by demanding a voice in the selection and content of courses. Students are, however, members of the academic community. As universities persist in offering courses which are irrelevant, offensive and even intolerable, students justly will be stepping up their demands for change and for meaningful student participation to guarantee implementation of necessary change. Those who argue for Faculty hierarchical; prerogatives merely are defending the status quo, not academic freedom...
...department also offers several parallel sets of courses which cover the same subjects, such as Physics 115 and Physics 131-151, but does not effectively coordinate their content. As a result, Shipman said, upper-level courses suffer because students enter with widely differing preparation...
...establishing himself as a superb social satirist (though, admittedly, the satire of late has been diluted by too much detail and conversation), Roth has now written his first exclusively introspective novel. Having reached the age of 25, he begins to muck about in the depths where he was once content to capture the ironies on the surface. To some extent, the process began in the character of Letting Go's Paul Herz, but where Roth's study of Herz was pedestrian, weighted with many of the conventions of novelistic realism, that of Alexander Portnoy is wonderfully off-center. Roth...
...Graduate School of Design, are in full accord with the statement of the 113 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 17 and the response of President Pusey. The intrusion of students into a classroom a Hunt Hall for the purpose of influencing the content of a course was an extremely serious infringement of academic freedom and threat to the foundations of the university community...
...same reason that I voted against ROTC two weeks ago: because I believe that the freedom of a professor to profess is crucial to the very existence of a university. It may sometimes be appropriate for a man to consult his faculty or student colleagues in determining the content of his course, but finally he must teach what he believes to be true, relevant to his subject matter, and of value to his students. Any coercive interference with his decision on these matters, from inside or outside the university, from government agencies or political organizations of students, seems...