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1. Past and future: The long view / Sidney Hook -- Level of discourse
is a key to the tone of society's future / A.M. Rosenthal -- 2. Student
unrest: On the new student nihilism / Herbert A. Deane -- Education in
fever / Charles Frankel -- The student seizures / Ernest van den Haag --
The anatomy of student discontent / Bruno Bettelheim -- Black studies:
the universities in moral crisis / Abba P. Lerner -- Academic freedom
for the student in the classroom / Edward Chalfant -- 3. The crisis of
the university: The crisis of the university / Henry Steele Commager --
Conflict and change in the academic community / Sidney Hook --
Tomorrow's university -reactionary either way / Jacques Barzun -- 4.
Learning and society: Student activism and the social role of the
universities / Frederick A. Olafson -- Efficiency as a prod to social
action / Kenneth B. Clark -- Purists and politicians / Don K. Price --
5. Campus revolts: A foolproof scenario for student revolts / John R.
Searle -- Academic freedom and the failure of nerve / Arnold Beichman --
"War of the flea" at San Francisco State / John H. Bunzel -- Inside the
Buffalo commune: or, how to destroy a university / Paul Kurtz -- 6.
Politics and education: Can American universities be depoliticized?: the
argument of an address by Henry Aiken as summarized by Sidney Hook --
From the platitudinous to the absurd / Sidney Hook -- Epilogue: What is
to be done?