Jesse Lemisch wrote:
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> huh? what's the problem? you can't imagine intellectual and poltical combat
> in a professional association? I gather you were born in fairly recent bleak
> times.
And not just "in the professional association," since those battles were linked to and in turn overflowed into political battles _not_ just 'on campus' but in the wider communities, and a good deal of left political activity in the intervening 35 +/- years had its origin in those merely academic battles in a cream bowl.
One might wish it otherwise. One did wish in the '60s that the anti-war effort had been less limited to student activity, and quite a few people (many also members of professional organizations) gave considerable effort to _trying_ to spread the base. I've enjoyed reading most of Dennis Claxton's posts, but this is silly.
Carrol