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Aren't students likely to believe just the reverse of what the Profs say ?
Reader comment on item: From the Halls of Academia
Submitted by Saul Pfeffer (Canada), Dec 27, 2002 at 17:26
Daniel Pipes,Are we perhaps worrying for naught ? Don't our young people espouse just the opposite of what the Profs believe? Or have things radically changed in academia?
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| 1 | Racist Muslim gets fired [166 words] | Prashant | Nov 2, 2022 09:48 | 288164 | |
| 1 | 5 years later [86 words] | Jim Labbe | Jul 30, 2007 02:48 | 105109 | |
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| 1 | Wonder if they've read... [94 words] | MJA | Apr 18, 2005 21:04 | 21716 | |
| The problem of pluralism [90 words] | timpaul | May 6, 2003 04:49 | 8876 | ||
| 1 | Missing the point [262 words] | Baruch Lawrence | Apr 30, 2003 22:20 | 8810 | |
| Intellectual facism [382 words] | Justin Spigelman | Jan 27, 2003 01:57 | 6004 | ||
| Mixed priorities [583 words] | Don Canham | Jan 27, 2003 00:30 | 6003 | ||
| Disappointed at the quality of Professors' statement.. [76 words] | N. Sriram | Jan 13, 2003 10:11 | 5694 | ||
| Maybe the Prof's are more objective than many in their nation [286 words] | Matt Pack | Jan 13, 2003 02:06 | 5688 | ||
| Free speech, dissent, diversity: yes -- hypocrisy: no [166 words] | Steven Malcolm Anderson | Jan 10, 2003 00:04 | 5632 | ||
| Stan at SFSU -- Please contact me [31 words] | Stan Brin | Jan 8, 2003 21:06 | 5606 | ||
| The Left's Campus Tyrants [378 words] | Paul broughton | Jan 7, 2003 17:04 | 5567 | ||
| The Pot Calling the Kettle Black? [177 words] | Douglas Ball | Jan 7, 2003 16:57 | 5566 | ||
| No loyalty oaths, please [170 words] | Marian Hennings | Jan 7, 2003 11:45 | 5541 | ||
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| The right to dissent [88 words] | Louis Wheeler | Jan 4, 2003 05:54 | 5476 | ||
| The Sedition Act [1000 words] | Darryl | Jan 3, 2003 14:56 | 5456 | |
| Colors. [153 words] | Frankie Lee | Jan 3, 2003 10:14 | 5449 | ||
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| Dissenting academics [32 words] | S.C.Panda | Jan 2, 2003 04:20 | 5406 | ||
| Basic Human Rights of the Repressed [296 words] | Jim Rivard | Jan 1, 2003 22:24 | 5399 | ||
| Orwell lives on the American Campus - SF State Uber Alles [226 words] | Stan | Jan 1, 2003 18:25 | 5392 | ||
| 1 | University Profs still don't "get it" [236 words] | Alan Skorski | Jan 1, 2003 17:40 | 5389 | |
| Cowards [72 words] | James Glennon | Jan 1, 2003 12:17 | 5377 | ||
| Those who hate America [118 words] | Michael Braun | Jan 1, 2003 11:03 | 5376 | ||
| Right to Dissent? or Fomenting Dissent? [117 words] | Rick Lasure | Jan 1, 2003 09:51 | 5373 | ||
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| Reclaim Campuses! [60 words] | John Kunnari | Dec 31, 2002 17:48 | 5350 | ||
| 1 | Should Foner and Gilmore be fired? [227 words] | Stephen Walton | Dec 31, 2002 15:12 | 5343 | |
| Lack of Character [368 words] | R.D.J. | Dec 31, 2002 11:21 | 5323 | ||
| The Religious Right [467 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Dec 31, 2002 09:36 | 5318 | ||
| So now the enemy is us? [30 words] | Betty Furey | Dec 31, 2002 00:01 | 5316 | ||
| Where do these people come from? [203 words] | Charles Brown | Dec 30, 2002 22:53 | 5315 | ||
| 1 | Who pays the salaries of most professors? [136 words] | Alex Uan-Zo-li | Dec 30, 2002 22:52 | 5314 | |
| America and the "professors." [69 words] | Barbara Barron | Dec 30, 2002 22:39 | 5312 | ||
| They still hate us [27 words] | Gary Miller | Dec 30, 2002 22:39 | 5311 | ||
| How to clean up the mess? [261 words] | John Lindsay | Dec 30, 2002 16:43 | 5306 | ||
| I'll 'hazard' some answers :) [646 words] | F.H.Vondell Jr. | Dec 30, 2002 16:16 | 5304 | ||
| Dissension and Patriotism [147 words] | Raymond Low | Dec 30, 2002 13:38 | 5302 | ||
| Academic Dishonesty [151 words] | Lily Downing | Dec 30, 2002 10:54 | 5299 | ||
| Pernicious thought control assaults [117 words] | Dave Marciniak | Dec 30, 2002 09:23 | 5297 | ||
| When the US is attacked and at war [109 words] | Norman Wand | Dec 29, 2002 23:49 | 5294 | ||
| Timidity of the Campus Lions [276 words] | Mike McGlothlin | Dec 29, 2002 19:05 | 5292 | ||
| Foner and Gilmore's reply [215 words] | Ken Shillito | Dec 29, 2002 16:20 | 5289 | ||
| Same old BS [227 words] | Robert Vaughn | Dec 29, 2002 14:02 | 5287 | ||
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| campus wits need watching [107 words] | Terijo | Dec 29, 2002 09:23 | 5280 | ||
| university students [596 words] | miriam sherman | Dec 29, 2002 09:20 | 5279 | ||
| War of Ideas on Campus [84 words] | Dr. Stephen Rittenberg | Dec 29, 2002 08:31 | 5278 | ||
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| Justification of war with Iraq [75 words] | Allan Unger | Dec 29, 2002 00:36 | 5269 | ||
| PROFESSORS AGAINST AMERICA [62 words] | ROSE KELLY | Dec 28, 2002 23:40 | 5268 | ||
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| Professors who hate America ... [161 words] | Louisa B. McIntire-Brooks | Dec 28, 2002 19:30 | 5259 | ||
| Halls of Academia [350 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Dec 28, 2002 18:18 | 5257 | ||
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| Thank you for your lens of reason! [345 words] | Satyam Bendapudi | Dec 28, 2002 16:10 | 5244 | |
| Foner and Gilmore [165 words] | Ben Creech | Dec 28, 2002 15:59 | 5243 | ||
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| Reply from two professors [61 words] | M Borg | Dec 28, 2002 14:45 | 5231 | ||
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| re:Art #988 [40 words] | Dixon Porter | Dec 28, 2002 08:28 | 5217 | ||
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| Professors & Responsibility [782 words] | RM Paine | Dec 28, 2002 00:34 | 5210 | ||
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| From the Halls of Academia [162 words] | Tony Padua | Dec 27, 2002 12:14 | 5166 | ||
| Freedom [64 words] | Gabriel Grosso | Dec 27, 2002 11:14 | 5164 |
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