A library is not a theoretical thing: it is part of the total social fabric. To ignore public opinion is to invite the kind of retaliation that would severely cripple the library's ability to operate. (Author)

A library should be a place where a person is free to turn on sexually as well as intellectually." (Author)

Adapted from an address to the faculty, September 14, 1970, on the concerns of a college presidential selection committee. (IR)

A university as a body should not take an official stand on disputed political or moral questions. (Editor)

Study of personality and character traits of students who volunteered fo Experimental Collegiate Program, a program for beginning students intended as alternative to first two years at Berkeley. (IR)

College administrators must win support from students and faculty, must consult more freely with them on policy decisions, and must keep more closely in touch with all segments of society. (IR)

The purpose of this essay is to discuss two questions with regard to student activism. What professional and institutional stands or policies would help reunite the university? What is the cause of the disjunction and why has it come at the present time?" (SE)

Presents and analyzes the most important laws that affected freedom of expression and the press in post-junta Greece. (FL)

Practical, political, and ethical issues result from industry investments in university research. These issues are discussed in terms of the commercialization of university research, challenge to academic integrity (considering academic freedom and government funding), and implications for the university (considering contracts, mergers,…

The legal tests that are applied to the issue of state mandates to provide creation instruction in public schools, and the implications of the mandates, are discussed. This issue is compared with other curriculum mandates and requirements to illustrate the difficulty of the problem. (MSE)

Examines academic freedom focusing on the role of school textbooks which are often logical focal points for exercise of control or supervision. Society's values, education and thought control, lobbying, history texts, and the creationism vs. evolution controversy are discussed in relation to the censorship controversy. References are provided.…

Discusses constitutional limitations on public-sector collective bargaining that incorporates exclusive representation and relates the issue to fundamental tenets of individual liberty and representative government. Illustrates the issue with an Indiana case to be appealed before the U.S. Supreme Court, "Perry Education Association v. Perry…

Tenure, with its blanket protection, is the price paid for the benefits of encouraging faculty to stray from the comfortable path of orthodoxy and to challenge the rationalizations used to maintain it. The psychological trauma of abolishing tenure would be enormous and disruptive. (MSE)

Presents a two-part debate on the criticism and review of children's books and textbooks by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. (RL)