NeoLibs?
I had planned to attend this morning a breakfast forum sponsored by Soros' OSI, which I shall not be able to make, "to mark the publication of University Inc. The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education."
The following posting by one of my CUNY colleagues points to this phenomenon in two of the institutions where I was educated, Yale and Columbia. It raises the question in my mind as to when liberal turns to 'Neoliberal' or whatever one wants to call those who begin to use force and deception rather than persuasion to pursue goals that do not represent the best interests of our academic communities, but rather the dispositions of those who happened to be in charge of them via the appointments of wealthy donor-trustees. I was particularly struck by the difference between the Ivies and Oxford in this regard when I first attended the latter as a student. I had had to do battle as the Chairman of the Yalie Daily there with all sorts of university wrong-doing ranging from anti-Semitic admissions quotas to cover-ups of group rapes of local high school girls by the frat of which the current Bush was later president, which sponsored an annual "pig night" to which young New Haven girls were invited and then told of their ugliness at midnight when well liquored up. Our then president was a refugee from Wall St. He threatened my expulsion for writing an editorial disclosing that our frats were routinely serving minors. I was in a special Directed Studies program which included Ford Scholars selected directly from earlier years in high school and I had had it having had to rescue at least one under aged one from local bars where he was well on the way to becoming a teen alcoholic.
The following was posted by my wider colleague, Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Click below for my "Alan Brinkley: Liberalism in Collapse?" on History News Network with links to Jennifer Washburn's magnificent piece posted on The Nation's website, Brinkley's shameful strike-breaking memo of February 16, and my speech in support of the Columbia TA/RA union, Graduate Student Employees United (April 2004)
http://hnn.us/articles/11548.html
The following posting by one of my CUNY colleagues points to this phenomenon in two of the institutions where I was educated, Yale and Columbia. It raises the question in my mind as to when liberal turns to 'Neoliberal' or whatever one wants to call those who begin to use force and deception rather than persuasion to pursue goals that do not represent the best interests of our academic communities, but rather the dispositions of those who happened to be in charge of them via the appointments of wealthy donor-trustees. I was particularly struck by the difference between the Ivies and Oxford in this regard when I first attended the latter as a student. I had had to do battle as the Chairman of the Yalie Daily there with all sorts of university wrong-doing ranging from anti-Semitic admissions quotas to cover-ups of group rapes of local high school girls by the frat of which the current Bush was later president, which sponsored an annual "pig night" to which young New Haven girls were invited and then told of their ugliness at midnight when well liquored up. Our then president was a refugee from Wall St. He threatened my expulsion for writing an editorial disclosing that our frats were routinely serving minors. I was in a special Directed Studies program which included Ford Scholars selected directly from earlier years in high school and I had had it having had to rescue at least one under aged one from local bars where he was well on the way to becoming a teen alcoholic.
The following was posted by my wider colleague, Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Click below for my "Alan Brinkley: Liberalism in Collapse?" on History News Network with links to Jennifer Washburn's magnificent piece posted on The Nation's website, Brinkley's shameful strike-breaking memo of February 16, and my speech in support of the Columbia TA/RA union, Graduate Student Employees United (April 2004)
http://hnn.us/articles/11548.html
posted by Ed Kent at 7:41 AM
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