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...some of the more perceptive remember that one of the principal architects of our Vietnam policy was a former dean of the faculty at Harvard, McGeorge Bundy. These men are expressing their feelings in books like The Dissenting Academy, a collection of articles edited by Theodore Roszak...
...Roszak and others, the Vietnam war has uncovered long-standing failings of the academic community...
...Roszak, chairman of the History of Western Culture program at California State College, said that "until the recent rash of campus protest related to the Vietnam war, nothing has so characterized the American academic as a condition of entrenched social irrelevance, so highly developed that it would be comic if it were not sufficiently serious in its implications to stand condemned as an act of criminal delinquency...
...Social Science and Social Consciousness," by Robert Engler, Professor of Social Science at Sarah Lawrence College, appearing in Roszak's book, contends that the graduate student's mind is being strangely perverted...
...Roszak notes that reporters rarely find anything newsworthy at conferences of such groups as the American Political Science Association or the American Sociological Association. The meetings, he says, have "no more socially significant purpose in mind than an assembly of plumbers or hotel managers." Today's academics, he notes, take a "strange kind of pride in recognizing a problem, but not in solving...