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...member National Association of Scholars. With headquarters in Princeton, N.J., the N.A.S. has emerged as the cutting edge of faculty opposition to the excesses of multiculturalism and the replacement of traditional curriculums with courses about race and gender issues. One well-known N.A.S. critic, Stanley Fish, chairman of the Duke University English department, has declared that the association is widely known to be "racist, sexist and homophobic" and argued that its members should be barred from committees dealing with tenure or curriculum. But N.A.S. president and co-founder Stephen H. Balch, 47, insists that the N.A.S. seeks only to maintain...
...foundations, but Balch insists, "We follow our own lights." The association publishes the quarterly Academic Questions, sponsors regular conferences and has affiliates in 20 states; membership has almost doubled in the past year and is growing at the rate of 25 applications a week. Among the roster of luminaries: Duke political scientist James David Barber, Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson and Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The reason for such interest, says Clark's Sommers, is that liberals as well as conservatives now worry about an "environment of intimidation" that has forced some professors to tape their...
...arias whose sinuous lines deny the listener the security of a conventional verse-chorus-verse structure. Once a card carrying minimalist, the composer now weds a sturdy rhythmic pulse with a freer melodic and harmonic idiom that can evoke with equal aplomb a Monteverdi arioso, a Mendelssohn scherzo or Duke of Earl...
...most important things in life have nothing to do with party," said Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer last week after abandoning the Democrats for the G.O.P. The move could save his political neck in a three-way re-election race next fall against Republican State Representative David Duke, an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, and former Governor Edwin Edwards...
...White House encouraged the switch of the Harvard-educated Roemer, 48, who was known as a fiscal conservative and social moderate while serving in Congress from 1980 to 1988. But the change by no means assures his victory, even though white supremacist Duke has been disavowed by the Republican , leadership and the flamboyant Edwards was paraded before the public in the course of two corruption trials that ended in acquittal. In Louisiana politics, being a scoundrel is not necessarily a liability...