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...Faculty and the Administration to realize is exactly what is going on here--how the students view the war and the draft, and what they think their relationship with the University should be. For many, understanding this is not such an easy matter. Leading academicians--President Pusey and George Kennan--showed an inexcusable ignorance in recent comments about campus radicals...
...Kennan may have set your mother clucking over her New York Times Magazine with his article of January 21, "Rebels Without a Program." He quotes Woodrow Wilson extensively on the virtues of the ivory tower in education. Then he writes...
...Kennan is hopelessly disillusioned if he believes that the University today can function as it did in the good old days of Woodrow Wilson and his nuns. Universities have ties with business and government that are necessary for survival, as we have said. Students are "absorbed in the affairs of this passing world" because the world is making demands on them, with the draft, that are hard to reconcile with their consciences...
Along with this, students have, as Pusey notes, become more socially conscious. They use their knowledge and position to help people before they get out of the monastery. If Kennan thinks students should not involve themselves in the world, he is the real Walter Mitty. The fact is that they are forced to involve themselves...
...Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan...