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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (58529)	9/18/2002 3:15:20 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

really aynrand.org "At the University of Texas, for instance, when the administration criticized a professor for accusing America of terrorism, his colleague described the faculty's reaction: "There was a very clear message that if you stick your neck out, [the administration] will disown you." Blaming a nationwide climate, the general secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) said a "distrust of intellectuals has always lurked beneath the surface of American popular opinion. Now it has begun to leak out again." AAUP's director of public policy claims there "are some things here that harken back to McCarthyism."