Re: Academic freedom (Was Re: O.S.A.)

I can't help following up article <LPF25c1w165w@orchide.dialix.oz.au>, where jan@orchide.dialix.oz.au (Jan Pompe) said: >gazit@lear.cs.duke.edu (Hillel) writes:
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>> About 30 years after Berkeley's freedom of speech movement, in article
>> <3p07ph$fbu@mars.earthlink.net> Vera Wallace writes:
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>> >I have a question. Your anti-Scientology documents are stored at MIT.
>> >Is this computer site paid for by any state or US government funds? Do
>> >you pay them for the use of this site?
>>
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>> Public funds have been used to maintain libraries with opinions
>> which are radically different than the society in large. E.g.
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And not-so-public funds, too. One of the largest collections of Marxian literature in the world is maintained by the Hoover Institution at Stanford, that well-known hotbed of radical thought so beloved of ... um ... er ... Ronald Reagan?!!?!

Universities have amusing behavior with respect to documents. They just love them to death ... pro ... con ... merely brilliant ... or simply unintelligible. Words in a row: gotta love 'em!

-- Stephen Turnbull Yaseppochi-gumi turnbull@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp <a href="http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/">http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/</a>