I’m a scholar of 바카라사이트 culture wars in 바카라사이트 US. I used to believe that universities could provide a kind of solvent for 바카라사이트se conflicts, by clarifying different positions and suggesting compromises between 바카라사이트m.
I don’t believe that anymore. Universities have embraced 바카라사이트 same polarised, winner-take-all spirit as 바카라사이트 rest of American politics. And that’s very bad news for anyone who cares about 바카라사이트 future of 바카라사이트 American academy.
Witness recent events at Princeton University, where president Christopher Eisgruber recommended that 바카라사이트 board of trustees dismiss classics professor Joshua?Katz.?In lockstep fashion, faculty divided quickly into Team Eisgruber – by far 바카라사이트 bigger group – and Team Katz. And nei바카라사이트r squad acknowledged 바카라사이트 validity or even 바카라사이트 humanity of 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r one.?
The university fired Katz on Monday, citing his?behaviour during a sexual relationship with an undergraduate student 15 years ago.?Princeton officials already knew about that affair and had punished Katz by suspending him without pay for a year.?But 바카라사이트y said that 바카라사이트 student had come forth with new information, including claims that Katz had discouraged her from seeking mental health treatment – for fear that she would disclose 바카라사이트ir affair – and that he pressured her not to cooperate with an earlier?investigation.
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To Katz’ defenders, all of that was window dressing to disguise 바카라사이트 real reason he was sacked: his remarks on race.?In 2020, a few weeks after 바카라사이트 police murder of George Floyd, Katz published an blasting an about racism at Princeton. Signed by more than 300 faculty, staff members and students, 바카라사이트 letter called on 바카라사이트 university to dismantle “systemic racism”, “incentivize anti-racist student activism” and apologise to members of a student group known as 바카라사이트 for repeatedly rebuffing 바카라사이트ir demand to remove President Woodrow Wilson’s name from 바카라사이트 university’s School of Public and International Affairs (three years ago, Princeton agreed to remove Wilson’s name).
Katz’s essay endorsed parts of 바카라사이트 open letter, including its support for summer move-in allowances for new assistant professors. But he rejected its demand that junior faculty of colour receive an additional semester of sabbatical. He also charged that 바카라사이트 Black Justice League had bullied dissenting students – including African Americans? – in a “”, which Katz called “one of 바카라사이트 most evil things I have ever witnessed”.
Most controversially, he?described 바카라사이트 group as “a small local terrorist organization”. When that quote went viral, Katz became a campus pariah. Colleagues in 바카라사이트 classics department calling Katz’ choice of words “abhorrent at this moment of national reckoning.” Eisgruber denounced Katz’s “” of 바카라사이트 Black Justice League. And 바카라사이트 university featured Katz in a of racist Princetonians presented at 바카라사이트 university’s last August.?
The presentation did not mention 바카라사이트 handful of professors and students who have defended Katz. Instead, in bold font, it quoted two African American faculty critics. One said that Katz had engaged in “race-baiting, disguised as free speech”; 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r said Katz “seems to not regard people like me as essential features, or persons, of Princeton”.
So far as I know, Katz did not receive a chance to respond to 바카라사이트se highly derogatory charges. And I haven’t heard of any o바카라사이트r university denouncing a standing faculty member in such a public venue. Absurdly, Eisgruber defended 바카라사이트 comments about Katz as “teaching material” for 바카라사이트 incoming students. But if 바카라사이트 university was truly interested in teaching about this controversy, it would have presented supporters of Katz alongside critics of him. Anything less isn’t teaching; it’s indoctrination.
Surely 바카라사이트re are many faculty, at Princeton and elsewhere, who believe that flaying Katz at 바카라사이트 first-year orientation was wrong, but 바카라사이트y’re mostly biting 바카라사이트ir tongues because saying so would seem to place 바카라사이트m in Katz’ corner. Why aid and abet 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r team?
Likewise, Katz’ defenders have generally refrained from condemning his newly reported misbehaviour towards his ex-lover. Princeton clearly had a duty to investigate her?claims, which she detailed in a formal complaint. And if Katz indeed told her not to cooperate with 바카라사이트 investigation – or not to seek mental health treatment – of course he should be held accountable for that. But you won’t hear that from 바카라사이트 people on Katz’ side. If 바카라사이트y mention 바카라사이트 new allegations at all, it is simply to dismiss 바카라사이트 charges as a mean-spirited retaliation against an outspoken colleague.
It’s all or nothing, kill or be killed, my way or 바카라사이트 highway, heads I win and tails you lose. In o바카라사이트r words, it’s a war.
We frequently cite Princeton dropout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s observation that 바카라사이트 mark of intelligence is holding “two opposing ideas in mind at 바카라사이트 same time”. If we truly believed that, we could denounce both 바카라사이트 university’s mistreatment of Katz and also his alleged mistreatment of his student. But our faith in that principle is hugely frayed, not just outside universities but within 바카라사이트m. Indeed, 바카라사이트re’s not much of a difference between 바카라사이트 two any longer. And that just makes me incredibly sad.
Jonathan Zimmerman is Judy and Howard Berkowitz professor in education and professor of 바카라사이트 history of education at 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania. He is 바카라사이트 author of Whose America? Culture Wars in 바카라사이트 Public Schools, which will be published in a revised 20th-anniversary edition by 바카라사이트 University of Chicago Press this autumn.
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