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STEPHEN DONADIO
should direct their protest at the university, which they take to
be
representative of the society, as the part of the society with which
they are most immediately involved and which is most accessible to
their protest. My seeing this doesn't prevent me from thinking that
they are wrong in dealing with the university as if it were perfectly
continuous with the society, or as it it were the microcosm of the
society. Both Noam Chomsky and Stuart Hampshire tried to correct
this view in speaking to student audiences here.
If
it should persist,
if students conduct themselves toward the university as if its short–
comings and anomolies produced the same kind of effect as the
shortcomings and anomolies of the society, or of a particular govern–
ment, the academic life will soon be made impossible.
