>You didn't ask for more examples, but the subject of Yale came up and I
>thought I'd add one from here to complement Wotjek's stories from JHU. As
>most people know, the grad student union here has been attempting to
>organize here for some years in the face of tremendous hostility from the
>administration. Much of the hostility has been channeled through
>department heads and faculty members some of whom have gone so far as to
>threaten to withhold letters of recommendation from students who engage in
>organizing for GESO. Included in this latter group are several of the
>university's better known "leftists." Similarly, a faculty support
>committee for GESO was formed last year to attempt to push the university
>to take a neutral stand toward the union. If you want, I will be happy to
>attach an email list of its members. You will discover a large fraction
>of self described progressive Yale faculty members, even some who describe
>themselves as "Marxists," to be absent from this list.
Please do. And since I'm not intimately familiar with today's Yale faculty or its political inclincations, please name the names of the missing.
Doug