Kors, Alan Charles and Silverglate, Harvey A. The Shadow University:
The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses. New York: The Free Press,
1998. 415 pages.
Alan Kors, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and
Harvey Silverglate, a civil liberties attorney in Boston, compiled this
comprehensive account of what's been happening on American campuses over the
last 15 years. It seems that the First Amendment is out of favor, and campus
administrators have instituted kangaroo courts to enforce speech codes that
protect the sensitivities of women, minorities, and gays. This has led to
numerous prosecutions of straight white males -- both faculty and students
-- for speech or expressive behavior that would have been considered legally
protected on campuses just 25 years ago. Even today, as soon as one steps
off campus, courts are consistently striking down these repressive speech
codes. The problem is that students don't have the resources to pursue their
rights off campus, which can take years of effort. This book is peppered
with dozens of case histories and incidents on dozens of campuses, which are
then juxtaposed with First Amendment case law in the real world (off-campus).
What's going on here? The authors trace the problem back to Marcuse's theory
of "repressive tolerance," which turned into "progressive intolerance."
Not likely; it's rather a case of quotas and multiculturalism gone amuck.
The "diversity administrators" on campus are buzzword thugs who know little
of Marcuse or the 1960s -- sometimes they seem barely even literate.
ISBN 0-684-85321-3
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