[Roberton3]

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In a related issue (though one where the football team is not involved -- at least not yet), have folks kept up with the events at Yale?  See http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...le/414810/

Much of it is very troubling for anyone who values universities as centers of open intellectual inquiry and debate.

I don't remember a time when that was really true.  Countercultural, sure.  Differences of opinion?  Oh yeah.  Respect for other points of view, leading to "open intellectual inquiry and debate?"  No.
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Perhaps I'm being naive and overly idealistic, but I think you're being too cynical.  I can certainly say that the atmosphere in academia feels much less open to differing ideas now than it did when I was a student, or when I started as a professor.

That said, I should probably let this drop.  We've wandered fairly far off-topic (even relative to the CardBoard norm).

[Roberton3]

[quote author=Roberton3 link=topic=13558.msg140950#msg140950 date=1447271823]
In a related issue (though one where the football team is not involved -- at least not yet), have folks kept up with the events at Yale?  See http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...le/414810/

Much of it is very troubling for anyone who values universities as centers of open intellectual inquiry and debate.

I don't remember a time when that was really true.  Countercultural, sure.  Differences of opinion?  Oh yeah.  Respect for other points of view, leading to "open intellectual inquiry and debate?"  No.
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Perhaps I'm being naive and overly idealistic, but I think you're being too cynical.  I can certainly say that the atmosphere in academia feels much less open to differing ideas now than it did when I was a student, or when I started as a professor.

That said, I should probably let this drop.  We've wandered fairly far off-topic (even relative to the CardBoard norm).