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...South and most have traditionally had ministers as presidents-often men of intellectual distinction but with no training as educators. However bombastic in the pulpit, they made a point of being obliging to white authority. They demanded little, and they got little. The result was what Sociologists David Riesman and Christopher Jencks have denounced as "an illfinanced, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education." Lately, reflecting both the new pride and the new competence of the U.S.'s black community, a number of more militant Negro college presidents have risen to power...
What about the tuition hike without a commensurate raise in scholarships? This, too, is economic double-talk which conceals specific political priorities. In a term paper on University financial decisions written for David Riesman last spring, David Labaree '69 concludes...
...Riesman, who this year is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford said that "the United States through most of its history has been a profoundly conservative country." The conservative majority is usually apathetic in national politics, he wrote, but when "presented... with definitions of American life sharply at odds with their own," conservatives undertake "symbolic crusades to extirpate the strange and the stranger and to set the country back on the right track...
...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
...Riesman concluded that, despite the present rise of the right, "America is a more open society than it ever has been" and that "more Americans are confused than are dogmatic and fanatical...