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...Cambridge is composed of three main sociological elements: 1. college-age students from non-agricultural or rural backgrounds, 2. average low-income urban Americans and 3. a segment of middle-income semi-aware individuals who are neither interested in manipulation nor able to be fully manipulated. They are relatively neutral...
Faith has also been shaken in one of the central beliefs of scientific methodology. Even the most "detached" scientific observers, says Harvard's Mendelsohn, are beginning to realize that they bring certain "metaphysical and normative judgements" to their work. In other words, scientific observations are not "theory-neutral," as scientists once claimed, but are actually "theory-laden...
Since the University's central function is the "pursuit of truth," the committee reasoned, Harvard could "best serve society" by "maintaining a neutral stance as a university on all political and social questions." Only when no room for argument exists among people who accept our basic socio-economic-political system," should the University risk a political stance...
...must indeed learn to separate the negative from the positive in college learning; but more importantly to accentuate the positive. We must realize that there are certain neutral analytic tools within given disciplines that all must master, irrespective of political bend. In mastering the neutral analytic tools, one is then able to delineate one's own political biases by hypothesizing these biases, using the neutral analytic tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids...
...other problem lies within the ICCS itself. Given the natural divisions between the Canadians and Indonesians, who generally try to maintain a professionally neutral posture despite their Western sponsorship, and the Poles and Hungarians, who invariably favor the Communist side, nearly all ICCS teams suffer a built-in paralysis. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand visited one ICCS team last week in Tri Ton, a small town in the Mekong Delta. His report...