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To: LindyBill who wrote (37448)	8/13/2002 8:26:37 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Kurtz' essay is really funny, sad, and tragic all at the same time. Who knows, at least from his essay, why some faculty members oppose their students' participation in these programs. There may or may not be valid reasons. But (1) Kurtz does not have enough in his life to worry about so he worries about a few faculty members standing on their principled views, quite clearly very courageous because they are swimming against a very strong tide; (2) he obviously makes the point he thinks he is arguing against. He seems to think it's close to traitor talk to argue that knowledge and power are closely linked, then argues that these faculty members should back off because of national interests (hmmm, a bit of power running around there and knowledge related to power). Kurtz is not a very bright guy.