[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Report on Unpatriotic Scholars

[invisble ink <invink01@yahoo.com>]

excellent in-depth analysis of ACTA and this
report on unpatriotic academics (center column
feature):
 
"Who are the brain police???"
http://la.indymedia.org/index.php3




--- bc <human@electronetwork.org> wrote:
> 
>   [from the NYTimes, paper-version. not yet
> found online.]
>   11/24/2001, StarTribune newspaper, article
> online at:
>  
> http://startribune.com/stories/484/850675.html
> 
> 
>   "Report accuses many scholars of being
> unpatriotic"
> 
>   abstract: "Critics contend that a list of 117
> allegedly
>   anti-American statements made on campuses
>   since Sept. 11 is misleading and offensive."
> 
>   "[list] compiled by the American Council of
> Trustees
>   and Alumni, a conservative non-profit group
> devoted
>   to curbing liberal tendancies in academia.
> The list,
>   part of a report that was posted on the
> group's Web
>   site (
> http://www.goacta.org/Reports/defciv.pdf )
>   last week, accuses several dozen scholars,
> students
>   and even a university president of
> unpatriotic behavior
>   after Sept. 11.]
> 
>   "Calling professors "the weak link in
> America's response
>   to the attack," the report excoriates faculty
> members
>   for invoking "tolerance and diversity as
> antidotes to
>   evil" and pointing "accusatory fingers, not
> at the
>   terrorists, but at America itself."
> 
>   "Reports from advocacy groups are issued all
> of the
>   time. What has gotten this one, titled
> "Defending
>   Civilization: How Our Universities Are
> Failing
>   America and What Can Be Done About It," more
>   attention than usual is that one of the
> council's
>   founding members is Lynne Cheney, the wife of
>   Vice President Dick Cheney.


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