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What ever happened to academic conventions where the loudest sound was the rustle of learned papers? Nowadays, scholars stage annual shouting matches at which young professors of the New Left cry for "relevance" while those over 30 feel like 60. The radicals insist that the whole academic world must fight for social change. Old-guard teachers scent heresy-and more important, a disastrous politicization of scholarship...
...came to him." What also impressed the group was the kind of music they were now making, though it was still loud and eruptive, like the life they led. "It was like a volcano going off." Most people agreed, including Actor Marlon Brando, who once told them: "The two loudest things I've ever heard are a freight train going by and Bob Dylan and The Band...
...interviewers polled two samples-1,650 members of a cross section of the entire population and 1,118 national and community leaders. The second group included only public officials, chiefs of minority and dissident organizations, business executives, editors, leaders of educational and voluntary institutions-those whose collective voice registers loudest in public debate...
...indignant teachers pointed to a 1967 government report showing that over the past two decades, eleven-year-olds have increased the rate at which they learn to read by more than 24%. Meanwhile, a new stress on writing and new math has livened up teaching throughout the country. The loudest reaction, perhaps, came from Education Secretary Edward Short who declared: "The publication of the Black Paper was one of the blackest days for education in the last 100 years...
Hokanson's response turned out to be a politically unwise move. When the Business School finally did hold a mass meeting of about 1000 students, Hokanson received the loudest hisses of the day-quite a feat in itself considering the circumstances. Many of the Business School students dislike the type of leadership which has characterized his administration. Whether he is asked to resign or only censured. Hokanson should probably take it upon himself to bow out of the Business School's political scene...