Inside American Education (57 page)

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Gregory Lewis, “S.F. State Fight Over Who’ll Control Black Politics Class,”
San Francisco Examiner
, September 17, 1990, p. A4; Carl Irving, “Furor at UC over ‘Racist’ Course,”
San Francisco Examiner
, November 25, 1990, pp. 1ff; Joseph Berger, “Professors’ Theories on Race Stir Turmoil at City College,”
New York Times
, April 20, 1990, p. B1.

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David Rossie, “SUNY Offers A Lesson in Mobocracy,”
Press and Sun Bulletin
, March 31, 1991, p. 2. See also Carol Innerst, “Black Activists Disrupt Lecture,”
Washington Times
, April 2, 1991, p. A5; “Return of the Storm Troopers,”
The Wall Street Journal
, April 10, 1991, p. A22.

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Matt Corman, “Two Brown Students Harassed By Drunk Assailants on Hope St.,”
Brown Daily Herald
, February 9, 1990, p. 1.

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Marian Raab, “Attack on Students Investigated,”
The Badger Herald
(University of Wisconsin, Madison), January 29, 1990, p. 1.

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“… students at Columbia held a strike, at Northwestern they disrupt classes, at Berkeley they conducted sit-ins, at Cornell they chose to carry guns. The choice is up to Mr. Chace and the Board of Trustees.” A document from black sit-in protesters said that they had engaged in “a peaceful protest, perhaps for the last time.”
The Wesleyan Argus
, February 6, 1990, p. 11. An earlier statement was in a similar vein: “Demands imply action. We must act by means necessary to achieve our goals.”
The Wesleyan Argus
, October 18, 1989, p. 1. Later, in speaking of the unknown firebomber or firebombers, one of these activists said, “it is not their fault that they were forced to resort to violence.”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 17, 1990. A letter to the student newspaper from a student identified as an African-American major said of the bombing: “No one should mistake this action for anything but an attempt to communicate,” an attempt “as legitimate as picketing or signing petitions.” Michael Reinke and Brian Needleman, “Bombing Represented as Effort to Communicate,”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 13, 1990, p. 3.

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Chris Kenedi and Alex Navarro, “Chace Hopeful, Not Afraid After Bombing,”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 10, 1990, p. 1. While the Wesleyan Student Assembly voted to condemn the bombing—not unanimously, but by an 8 to 2 vote—another group of students refused to condemn it, and instead criticized the university, which they said was “being allowed by the public to revel in self-pity and ignore major issues on campus.” Dina Kaplan, “100 Students Meet Press, Show Concern for Bombing Response,”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 17, 1990, p. 1. “The WSA [Wesleyan Student Assembly] passed a resolution, by an 8-2 vote, condemning the fire-bombing …” Chris Kenedi and Alex Navarro, “Chace Hopeful, Not Afraid After Bombing,”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 10, 1990, p. 7. One Wesleyan student responded to criticism of the bombing by saying, “there is no progress without a struggle.”
The Wesleyan Argus
, April 10, 1990, p. 3.

¹¹⁷
“Racism on Campus,”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 14, 1988, p. 17.

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Jeffrey Hart, “The Poison of Affirmative Action,”
The Dartmouth Review
, October 11, 1989, p. 10.

¹¹⁹
Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, p. 38.

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Dinesh D’Souza, “Sins of Admissions,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 33.

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Allan C. Brownfeld, “Affirmative Action: The New Racism?”
Campus Report from Accuracy in Academia
, July/August 1990, p. 7.

¹²²
James McCutcheon, “Filling Quotas in the Admissions Dept.,”
The Dartmouth Review
, October 11, 1989, p. 6.

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“Conservative Student Journalist Wins Free Speech Lawsuit,”
Campus Report from Accuracy in Academia
, May 1989, pp. 1ff. The article which cost the student his job at California State University (Northridge) is also reprinted in this issue: James Taranto, “At UCLA, ‘Sensitivity’ Means Violence and Censorship,”
ibid.
, p. 5.

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Cartoon reprinted in
Time
, May 7, 1990, p. 106.

¹²⁵
Memorandum, June 1, 1990, addressed “To Whom It May Concern.”

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The false analogy to Hillel and Newman clubs has been made by many, including Troy Duster, “Understanding Self-Segregation on the Campuses,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, September 25, 1991, p. B1.

¹²⁷
Lisa Birnbach,
Lisa Birnbach’s New & Improved College Book
(New York: Prentice-Hall Press, 1990), p. 327.

¹²⁸
Mark Mathabane, “The Blight of Black Racism,”
New York Times
, August 23, 1989, p. A19.

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Keith Lee, “Discrimination of a Different Color,”
The Carletonian
, September 30, 1988, p. 5.

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Harmeet Dhillon, “Apartheid at Dartmouth,”
The Dartmouth Review
, February 10, 1988, p. 13.

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Ibid.

¹³²
Joan Walsh, “School Colors,”
San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner, This World
section, February 4, 1990, p. 9.

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“Calendar,”
Stanford University Campus Report
, June 13, 1990, p. 24.

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Allan Bloom,
The Closing of the American Mind
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), p. 316.

¹³⁵
Kenneth B. Clark, “Letter of Resignation from Board of Directors of Antioch College,”
Black Studies: Myths & Realities
, edited by Bayard Rustin (New York: A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1969), p. 34.

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Jeffrey Hart, “Selective Concern for Student Safety,”
The Dartmouth Review
, December 7, 1988, p. 12.

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“Chicanos Allege Harassment,”
Stanford Review
, February 26, 1990, p. 2; Daryl Josefer, “Student Affairs Unresponsive, Some Chicanos Allege,”
Ibid.
, pp. 3, 15.

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Jesse Luna, “MEChA Doesn’t Represent Concerns of Community,”
The Stanford Daily
, March, 1990, p. 4.

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Denise K. Magner, “Minority Students on Both Black, White Campuses Found to Feel Alienation,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 9, 1991, p. 2.

¹⁴⁰
Mike Rogoway, “Dr. Charles King to Speak,”
Whitman College Pioneer
, October 12, 1989, p. 1.

¹⁴¹
Ibid.

¹⁴²
See, for example, Stephen Goode, “Selling Diversity: Harmony Gurus on Campus,”
Insight
, November 25, 1991, pp. 12 ff.

¹⁴³
Robert Detlefsen, “White Like Me,”
New Republic
, April 10, 1989, p. 20.

¹⁴⁴
Anne Yeoman, “Racism Within,”
Inside Tulane
(published by the Office of University Relations, Tulane University), March 1990, pp. 1-2.

¹⁴⁵
Jeff Rosen, “Hate Mail,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 20.

¹⁴⁶
Robert R. Detlefsen, “White Like Me,”
New Republic
, April 10, 1989, pp. 18-19.

¹⁴⁷
Jean Chrisensen, “Racism Workshop Emotion,”
The Daily Cardinal
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), March 12, 1990, p. 1.

¹⁴⁸
See, for example, Jeff Rosen, “Hate Mail,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 20; Jacob Weisberg, “Thin Skins,”
ibid.
, p. 23.

¹⁴⁹
Jacob Weisberg, “Thin Skins,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, pp.22,23.

¹⁵⁰
Keith E. Whittington, “Crusading Against Racism at UT,”
Texas Review
, October 1987, p. 1.

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Peter Miskech, “The Freshman Guide to Diversity,”
Michigan Review
, September 1989, p. 12.

¹⁵²
David Edwards, “Censorship in the Name of the ‘Politically Correct,’”
University Review of Texas
, February 1991, p. 5.

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D. L. Cavicke, “Legal Briefs: From the Law School,”
Stanford Review
, January 8, 1990, p. 11.

¹⁵⁴
The Virginia Advocate
(University of Virginia) December 1990.

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“Letters: Racism Against Whites Spreading Across University,”
The Stanford Daily
, April 2, 1990, p. 4.

¹⁵⁶
Jacob Weisberg, “Thin Skins,”
New Republic
, February 18, 1991, p. 23.

¹⁵⁷
Thomas Short, “Selective Intolerance in the University,”
The Dartmouth Review
, January 25, 1989, p. 10.

¹⁵⁸
“A Mass Exodus”
The Bryn Mawr & Haverford News
, November 18, 1988, p. 8.

¹⁵⁹
“Bonner Questioned,”
ibid.
, November 11, 1988, p. 10. The article to which this letter responded was Robert Lee Bonner, Jr., “Bonner Describes Minorities’ Up-hill Battle,”
ibid.
, November 4, 1988, p. 6.

¹⁶⁰
Quoted in Constance Casey and Renee Koury, “The Walls of Ivy,”
San Jose Mercury News
, West Magazine Section, February 17, 1991, p. 15.

¹⁶¹
“Racism on Campus,”
The Christian Science Monitor
, June 14, 1988, p. 17.

¹⁶²
Campus Report from Accuracy in Academia
, January 1989, p. 3.

¹⁶³
“Racism on Campus,”
The Christian Science Monitor
, June 14, 1988, p. 17; Dinesh D’Souza,
Illiberal Education
, p. 135.

¹⁶⁴
Charles S. Farrell, “Black Students Seen Facing ‘New Racism’ on Many Campuses,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 27, 1988, p. A1.