_ accompantest € censorship of critical views about

_ other groups, a backlash is predictable.

_ (5) Tolerance is a core value of academic life, as is

civility. College authorities should ensure that these

values prevail. But tolerance involves a willingness,

not to suppress, but to allow divergent opinions.

Thus, ““sensitivity training’’ programs designed to

_ cultivate ‘correct thought’’ about complicated norma- tive, social, and political issues do not teach tolerance but impose orthodoxy. And when these programs favor manipulative psychological techniques over honest discussion, they also undermine the intellec- tual purposes of higher education and anger those subjected to them.

: (6) If entire programs of study or required courses

_ relentlessly pursue issues of ‘‘race, gender, and

: class’’ in preference to all other approaches to assess-

_ ing the human condition, onecan expect the increas-

ing division of the campus along similar lines.

_ (7) The discriminatory enforcement of campus regula-

_ tions can only sap the legitimacy of academic author-

_ ity and create a pervasive sense of mistrust. Indeed,

_ should students feel that repeated violations not only

_ gounpunished, but are actually appeased, the reckless

may be tempted to take matters into their own hands.

| The final stage of discredit will be reached when

_ students and faculty see in such appeasement attempts

_ by administrators to justify their own programs of

| campus ‘‘reform.’’

' The policies just described are generally well- intentioned. Nonetheless, ifthe goal were deliberately

_ well be adopted. On the premise that the fair treat- ment of individuals can do as much to correct the

, Current situation as the doctrine of collective guilt has | done to create it, the National Association of Scholars _ urges the following:

_ * admitting inadequately prepared students only when “fealistic provision can be made for remediation:

* maintaining nondiscriminatory hiring policies;

* climinating all forms of institutional segregation and preferential treatment determined by race andethnicity, together with administrative posi- tions that foster dissention:

* protecting the expression of diverse opinion; avoiding programs that attempt to impose ‘‘politi- cally correct’? thinking;

* adding or retaining ethnic or gender studies courses only when they have genuine scholarly content and are notvehicles for political harangue or recruit-

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_* enforcing campus rules, even with respect to those whofeel they are violating them in good cause.

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March 5, 1992

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