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"Whom the gods destroy they first make mad."Euripides CAUCASIAN AWARENESS From Louisiana comes word of idealism and reform to rouse the apathy down in the zoo: David Duke, leader of the...
...New York Times THE MARXIAN WHO BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER An inspiring symbiosis of academic freedom and the free enterprise system was recently discovered strutting on our eastern seaboard when one Yale professor, Kenneth Ian Leighton Mills ("a popular, black Marxist philosophy teacher," etc...
...They fear that Professor Mills' one year suspension will result in his going elsewhere...
...And the more we've imagined, the more we've been afraid...
...He chooses to promote these beliefs through such demonstrations as Friday night's parade from City Hall to Jackson Square...
...Coffin added...
...Tonight's program, "China, An Open Door...
...I don't think that anyone thought about the students -- what they are losing from this," said the Rev...
...Nixon's pandas took so long in leaving the Celestial Empire: In fact, the President told The Star, one reason for the delay in the pandas' trip to the United States was that young pandas ao not know instinctively how to mate...
...It is strange that something as sincere and as lasting as this interest between Cliff Irving and myself could come out of a hotel swimming pool acquaintanceship...
...We said this to each other, I remember...
...Every great institution and American tradition is being attacked and is being attacked and is being befouled by these people who are determined to destroy this country...
...Anne Baxter, frogwoman and confident of Clifford Irving, candidly displys a first-rate intellect, oozing with the awareness and sophistication that comes only to the truly liberated modernist: Clifford Irving told me about all his marriages, all four of them, and surprisingly enough described details of his life, particularly his private life, in such a way that I knew and still believe he is unusually interested in me as a person...
...For the past twenty-two years, China aas known practically everything about America...
...Euripides CAUCASIAN AWARENESS From Louisiana comes word of idealism and reform to rouse the apathy down in the zoo: David Duke, leader of the National Party, has a philosophy: "If we don't believe the Negroes are equal - - and what a laugh that is -- then we ought to stand up and say it...
...The need for institutional rectitude was given priority over an individual's need for forgiveness and restoration," Mr...
...The New York Times THE HORRORS OF BRAIN DRAIN rbe following advertisement for a television spectacular on Red China proves once again that Madison Avenue is modern America's most colossal achievement...
...Though the popular young Marxian socialist was suspended for one year from Yale (thus denying him his $13,000 salary from Yale) he will continue to receive his $26,000 for teaching a course in poverty at Stony Brook, for he has tenure there...
...was caught flagrante delicto moonlighting at the State University of New York, Stony Brook - - a grave breach of Yale's faculty regulations...
...Indeed the whole gorgeous episode possesses a peculiar glamour that is bound to warm the hearts of the American Association of University Professors at the same time that it encourages the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and it is not over yet as the illustrious New York Times reports: Indeed, some of Professor Mills' defenders maintain that precisely because he is not a member of the Yale "inner circle" and because he is a scholarly, sophisticated Marxist, the university should make certain it does not lose him...
...And now there is a move afoot amongst the more idealistic Yale faculty members to reinstate the popular young Marxian socialist over the objections of Yale President Brewster who has judged as spurious the argument made by some of Dr...
...We're not here just to be against the Negroes -- we're here because we love our race...
...And the less we've known, the more we've imagined...
...Within a few days we each felt as if we had known each other many years...
...Mills' friends that "because the faculty member involved is black and publicly or ideologically controversial he should therefore be held to a lower standard of ethical responsibility...
...He came to me as a student -- as a tall, slender, handsome, mature man who wanted to learn how to use scuba equipment safely and correctly...
...The Nation OUT OF HER DEPTH Ms...
...We are going to have to bridge these two worlds...
...The Tulane Hullabaloo SEX EDUCATION TRIUMPHANT In case you were puzzled as to why Mr...
...I think that in a day when the President of the United States goes to China to talk with Man Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, it behooves a great university to have a competent Marxist scholar around," commented Professor Gallston, who visited China last spring...
...offers us all a unique opportunity to begin to know the unknowable...
...William Sloan Coffin, Jr., the university's activist chaplain, noting that no one will be teaching Professor Mills' courses on concepts of revolution and social change...
...Snatch up some GM stock while you can: If the agribusiness system is allowed to continue on its present course, if in the name of saving the small farmer the federal government continues to hand pennies out the front door while corporate giants sneak out the back door with bushel baskets full of tax dollars, there can be only one outcome: General Motors or some other super, multinational corporation, will one dhy own American agriculture and the nation...
...While America has known practically nothing about China...
...The New York Times WHAT'S GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS The kind of sober economic analysis that makes The Nation outstanding in i t s field...
...Therefore, they were kept in the Peking Zoo to watch adult pandas...
...You can boil down the problems (of the country) into two words - - news and niggers...
...But prithy do pause for a moment of meditation on what is becoming a frightening brain drain, if adology continues to grow there will not be a garbage collector left in New York: Tonight the inscrutable Orient be~omes a little more scrutable...
...And this need for institutional rectitude reflected an unwarrated insecurity at Yale...
...They note that Staughton Lynd, the Marxist historian, resigned from the Yale faculty in 1968 because, he charged, he had no chance of receiving tenure...
...Chicago Tribune 22 The Alternative May 1972...
Vol. 5 • May 1972 • No. 8
