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November 28--Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, is released after being jailed for five days in the Pentagon Papers case. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, played what sources called a "highly significant" role in negotiations to free Popkin...
...Popkin for this Yuletide dream...
Samuel L. Popkin, lecturer on Government, said yesterday that the decision will have "absolutely no impact." He said, "The decision may protect some other countries, but it definitely will not affect Indochina...
...scary thing about the arguments of Popkin and the press is the way their assumption of the continued existence of a definable investigative elite undermines our ideals of an open, democratic society. In an ideal democratic situation, the continuation of a free and open exchange of ideas would be insured by the activities of each citizen as a "searcher" for the truth. To some extent, every citizen would be part scholar and part journalist. When Popkin and the press claim that as investigators they are an "exceptional" occupational group, they threaten to make our failure to achieve these valid democratic...
White's basic arguments apply with double force to Popkin's notion of a scholar's privilege. Even today it is difficult to distinguish a scholar from a non-scholar--after all, most of us have written term papers in our time. And who is to say that any man on the street will not write a book before Popkin, at the customary leisurely scholarly pace, gets around to publishing his findings. In a country of well-educated and supposedly inquiring citizens, Popkin's claim to be an "exception" by virtue of his occupation borders on the offensive...