de-tenuring

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:00:51 -0700 (PDT)

Dear All--

we have been here before. When I attended UCLA in the 1950's two of
my professors were de-tentured for believing that the 1st ammendment
made it inappropriate for a university ask them about their political
beliefs. Their refusal was held as clear evidence that they had
violated the criminal code of the day. At Berkeley, this happened
to Edward Tolman, after whom the current psychology building is named.

I live with a stomach more or less permanently in knots. Glad to know
that I am not the only one around who reacts to what is going on around
me in this way. Glad too, that I am not a Serb at Pristina U and was not
a Kosavar there a few years ago.

The method of double stimulation, if it not be be an excuse for academic
obfuscation (only) should warn us not to respond directly to environments
we confront, but to seek uxiliary means, through which indirectly, we
can more successfully achieve a more satisfactory enviroment of interaction.

Several people on this list have modelled such forms of action in the last
few hours.

Thanks
mike