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...group--called the National Association of Scholars (NAS)--was formed in 1987 to protect traditional canon from changes which would have added women and minority voices. The canon has become a symbol of embattled scholarship in the time of "political correctness...
...NAS members, which include Harvard scholars Wilson, Thernstrom, and Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, say that universities must retain the traditional canon or risk fragmenting education and depriving students of a solid intellectual base for their studies...
...promising scientifically, but because they carry a slightly greater risk of infection and, in turn, a greater potential for liability suits. In fact, some scientists contend that the threat of such suits has kept many major drug companies out of vaccine research altogether. To combat this chilling effect, the NAS report urges Congress to provide drug companies with liability protection...
...means. It is the presumption that every university attitude or decision is taken for a narrowly partisan purpose--to keep some particular group in power. To the complaint that Harvard is being politicized now, Kilson replies that it has always been. At the same time, he inconsistently reproves the NAS for politicizing the atmosphere and hopes that it will be "kept away" from Harvard...
...think NAS represents an overkill neoconservative response to some measure of fouling of the atmosphere of open and creative discourse on some campuses consequent to overzealous behavior by supporters of ethnic studies and women studies. All of us--conservatives, liberals, leftists--must take care not to allow our response to each others' occasional zealotry Lebanonize our universities. NAS strikes me as having failed to take care in this regard...