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To some extent, this public hostility is well deserved. The bankruptcies of Enron in the U.S. and Parmalat in Italy?and last week, the gyrations of Japan's stock market following news of alleged financial wrongdoing by Internet company Livedoor?have focused attention on corporate misdeeds on three continents. Revelations...
However, after BAA President Andrew Jones, a recent graduate of UCLA, began a series of aggressive measures—including publishing a list of the “dirty 30” radical professors and offering monetary rewards for students to gather information about professors—Thernstrom decided to...
“I wrote Jones by e-mail informing him that...the notion of payment was shocking to me, certainly a product of vigilantism,” Kessler said.
“When I realized that this group was not joking I thought about the more serious side to this McCarthy-like red-baiting campaign in that it reflects a broader trend in U.S. society towards what could be called authoritarian populism,” McLaren said. ?...
“Different views are appropriate and vital, and I agree with the [BAA’s] concept but the way Jones carried it out was an unwise decision,” he said.