Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!gtaylor From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc,net.motss Subject: Re: Corrupting youth con't Message-ID: <97@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 10:05:14 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.97 Posted: Fri Oct 26 10:05:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 06:00:35 EST References: <4953@duke.UUCP> <> Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Distribution: net.politics, net.motss Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 23 Summary: Okay, here's one: When the student agency that holds the purse strings here decided to go after the funding for the Cornell Review (similar in tone to the DReview, but not nearly as interesting sounding), one of the students on the board called up to think tank place that does the startup capital and told them he was the "business manager" of the paper. He proceeded to try to see if they could get their funding run past the startup period (turns out that the place wasn't in the habit of doing so, although the guy from student agencies certainly would have had a good case for cutting the funding if they *had* been willing). The guy at the foundation got suspicious, called the "real" people from the paper, and the crusading young man wound up looking like a real toad. He didn't even get so much as a slap on the wrist for his behaviour. I find the Review itself a waste of time, but all the self-righteous caterwauling about the threats and dirty trick from the right sure holds less sway now. If anything, it was a shot in the arm for the Review people-who had this really nifty "orthodoxy of the Left" rap about life at Cornell. Do you *really* believe that extremism in the defense of is no vice? Seems to me that the whole business winds up looking like the exchange of flames on the net at precisely the moment you start restricting stuff. You will *become* what you most despise unless you're *very* wise.