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Nathan Glazer: That's a fair point. I don't know to what extent that has
actually penetrated medical education or, let's say health education in the
lower schools, physiology, and so on. Possibly in some places it has.
Whether it's made its way into the state curricula, I don't know.
Speaker:We have hospitals with departments for alternative care and part
of the NIH has to do with alternative care. There are several medical
schools that have additions to their curricula having to do with this. So it
has penetrated, not outrageously but it's a splinter.
Donald Keaney: I'd like to raise a few brief objections. One of the speak–
ers proposed the idea of eliminating segregation on college campuses by
residential arrangements, by race and ethnici ty, and also other aspects of
that problem. Are we going to be living in a free society
if
this kind of
coerced association is implemented?
Michael Meyers: I think you missed my point, which is that we do not
have a free campus. We do not have an open campus and it is the college
which is funding the separatism, which is organizing and arranging the
separatism and which is contributing to the structuring of a racially iden–
tifiable campus, through pre-orientation programs, through funding, and
through hiring. Now if students on their own, outside of college housing,
want to room with whoever they want, that's their free association right.
Once you get the college involved and you have sections of dormitories
and wings of dormitories which the college knows are racially identifiable,
which they have contributed to, and which have a resident assistant to help
with the screening and the interviewing of residents, and when the college
does everything it has in its power and resources to promote certain racial–
ly identifiable groups as opposed to others, who do not want racial
separatism on the college campus, that is not free association. I'm not tak–
ing any "civil right" from a student. But there is cowardice on the part of
the administration. They do this because they're buying racial peace,
because it is popular and fashionable to have this kind of separatism and
they want to avoid trouble. They don't want to bother or urge people to
interact. They don't want to do those things. They don't want to reply to
Leonard Jeffries. They have free speech rights. They just don't exercise
them because of their cowardice, because of their racial paternalism, and I
don't like it.
Nathan Glazer: I do think the speaker raises an interesting point and I'll
give the Harvard case as an example. Harvard has never accepted theme
houses. It doesn't possess even an ethnic cultural center.
