ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, November 30, 1996 TAG: 9612020024
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: BRIEFLY PUT
* AN OP-ED article this week in The Wall Street Journal observes that Mario Savio, a leader of Berkeley's free speech movement, died this year right around the time that an entire print run of that university's newspaper, The Daily Californian, was stolen on Election Day so that no one got the paper.
That day's editorials included an endorsement of the controversial Proposition 209, which would outlaw racial preferences in government hiring. The attempt to suppress delivery and discussion of an opinion about affirmative action - on top of speech codes and efforts to keep speakers off campuses and other misguided maneuvers increasingly ridiculed but still spreading - is another reminder that free speech is again threatened in academia, but this time, by Savio's successors on the left.
* HERE'S ONE of the more notable teaching exercises led by parents and business people who went into public schools this week as part of The Great American Teach-In. A bank president in Florida walked into a high-school classroom carrying a cooler, which he turned upside-down on the teacher's desk. Out spilled $10,000 in cash.
That's the difference, said the banker, between what a high school graduate and a college graduate would earn per year at an entry-level position at his bank. He might have tried other demonstrations: say, reciting poems of a sort encountered, in all likelihood, only in college. But his was still a vivid lesson, and from a substitute teacher no less.
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