PROFESSOR X AND EMENDING THE CAUSES OF CAMPUS UNREST
Tyrrell, Roger D.
Professor X and Emending the Causes of Campus Unrest Roger D. Tyrrell I just thought that some of you might be interested in what your professors think, when they're not hiding under their desks...
...Now remembering our professors' jaunty sanctioning of anarchic effusions here is what they say when their little livelihoods are at stake...
...The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education recently surveyed the nation's professors (now numbering more than 500,000), and their preliminary tabulation revealed the following: 1...
...The professors' political inclinations vary markedly according to their field of study...
...Professors are strongly committed to the ideal of academic freedom...
...That the politics of the nation's professors is clearly "liberal...
...Four-fifths of those polled believed that "campus disruptions by militant students are a threat to academic freedom...
...Tyrrell is the light-heavyweight champion of St...
...Nixon...
...A) .About eighty-twoipercentbelieve that professors "should be free to present in class any idea that they consider relevant...
...Paul, Minnesota...
...And do you remember how many of these learned men had rejected the proposition that "student demonstrations have no place on campus...
...Paul, Minnesota...
...Among Agriculture professors, eighteen per cent are "left" or "liberal" and forty-nine per cent are "moderately" or "strongly" conservative...
...Just over half voted for Mr...
...Fully forty-seven per cent described themselves as "left" or "liberal," and another twenty-five per cent said they were "middle of the road...
...That merely means our next educational subsidy should reward professors for not teaching...
...Mr...
...B...
...About seventy-four per cent believe that professors "should be free on campus to advocate violent resistance to public authority...
...A...
...Humphrey in 1968, and just under thirty per cent voted for Mr...
...Fifty-four per cent disapproved either "with reservations" or "unreservedly" "the emergence of radical student activism in recent years...
...Professor X and Emending the Causes of Campus Unrest Roger D. Tyrrell I just thought that some of you might be interested in what your professors think, when they're not hiding under their desks or holding on to a podium for life-giving oxygen...
...But of course the professors do not feel that they should be held responsible when students are shot by national guardsmen...
...And seventy-three per cent reject the proposition that "student demonstrations have no place on campus...
...An even larger proportion disagree with the statement that "Political activities by students have no place on a college campus...
...He is a professional man without professional standards, but that doesn't make him a bad person...
...When their pupils come rapping at their doors: 1...
...B...
...And do you remember the seventy-four per cent of them who had asserted that professors should be free to "advocate violent resistance...
...Almost eighty-one per cent of American sociologists are "left" or "liberal," while only five per cent are "moderately" or "strongly" conservative...
...Only twenty-two per cent considered themselves "moderately conservative," and a mere two per cent are "strongly conservative...
...Thomas College, St...
...Clearly the American professor is idyllically ignorant of "cause and effect...
Vol. 4 • November 1970 • No. 1
