Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was another, more sensational, criticism raised against the Faculty vote: that it was born of the logic of fear. As Rosovsky's reference to Munich implied, many on the Faculty and around the country were appalled by what they saw as the capitulation of the nation's most prestigious university to the demands of students protesters--demands enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors...
...EXEMPTION effort fails, the lobbyists will try to bar HEW from using its funds to enforce the legislation. This would mean that colleges and universities could disobey the legislation without fear of federal scrutiny. There is reason to suspect that such disobedience would be widespread: since the three-year transition period for compliance with Title IX ended last July, HEW has received more than 100 allegations of sex discrimination in athletic programs...
...Faculty and administration behaved as badly as the students. "What was most striking was the ease with which academics, who are supposed to be rational, lose perspective. They behaved like people--no better perspective or relativity than anybody else," Hoffmann says. And he adds that some of this instinctive fear, a gut-level memory of 1969, persists in Faculty attitudes toward student activism. "If the South Africa issue mushroomed--though I don't think it would be the same because Bok is not Pusey--there would be a Pavlovian reaction," he notes...
...Afro-American Studies Department, but most decry the way it came into being. Recalling the April 22 Loeb Theater Faculty meeting at which the department was authorized under a plan allowing for student participation in major department decisions, Pipes describes "the sickening spectacle of the Faculty rationalizing its fear...
...most devastating long-term effects of the strike events, says Wilson, was "the legitimization of mass protest techniques which were used repeatedly in ways that inhibited academic freedom. Controversial subjects were not discussed because of fear of the reaction; outside speakers with unpopular views could not appear." Wilson says it took five to seven years before this fear dissipated...