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Democratic Culture. Newsletter of Teachers for a Democratic Culture DOCUMENT RESUME ED 377 780 HE 027 964 AUTHOR Wilson, John K., Ed. TITLE Democratic Culture. Newsletter of Teachers for a Democratic Culture. Volumes 1-3. INSTITUTION Teachers for a Democratic Culture, Evanston, IL. PUB DATE 94 NOTE 121p, AVAILABLE FROM Teachers for a Democratic Culture, P.O. Box 6405, Evanston, IL 60204 ($5, single copy price; annual membership: $5, students/low-income; $25, faculty/others). PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Democratic Culture; v1-3 Fall 1992-Fall 1994 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Academic Freedom; College Faculty; Culture; Culture Conflict; *Democracy; Democratic Values; Faculty College Relationship; Feminism; Government School Relationship; *Higher Education; *Politics of Education; Scholarship; School Community Relationship IDENTIFIERS Academic Community; Academic Discourse; Political Analysis; *Political Correctness; Political Criticism; Political Culture; Political Education ABSTRACT This document contains the first five issues of a newsletter for college faculty on countering the publicity campaign against "political correctness." The first issue from Fall 1992 describes the organization's founding and first year, analyzes a lawsuit brought by a faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology against her institution charging acquiescing in "a persistent and continuing pattern of professional, political and sexual harassment," reviews books of interest, and reports on media coverage of "political correctness." The Spring 1993 issue includes reports on a national lobbying organization for scholarly societies, the 1,olitical fate of possible Clinton-Administration appointee Johnetta Cole, and commentary from several contributors on national politics, higher education culture, liberalism and multiculturalism, and feminism and classical studies. The Fall 1993 issue contains articles on critical pedagogy, a debate over politics at Louisiana State University, consequences of the Reagan-Bush administrations, commentary on national politics, and other essays as well as monitoring of media coverage of higher education. The Spring 1994 issue offers 14 essays and reports on a variety of topics relating to the "politically correct" debate in academia. The Fall 1994 issue is devoted to analysis and commentary of "Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Been Betrayed by Women" by Christina H. Sommers. (JB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Newsletter of Teachers for a Democratic Culture democratic P.O. Box 6405 a Evanston, IL 60204 (312) 743-3662 FAX: (312) 743-4548 e-mail: jkw3@amber uchicago.edu c. VOLUMES 1-3 U.S. DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATION 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS OrkeotEducshonal ReIgerch and improvement MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMA1 CENTE ERICI 0 This document has Peen ',Prod' John Wilson reccred horn the parSOn Or cep cjrginating Teachers for a O'PrCnor changes hare been made to unorcer rtoroductiOn Quality Democratic Culture Points Or.... or opithons Meted in this doeu- TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES mint do not neceseahly ',prison! official OERI positron 01 pohcy INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 `.Pr.7.* S. '^ Volume I 'F411 1992 Nattibek 140, 4=.4 in" '' P.O. Bolcom Evanstouipakob 4204. i312) 74442.14ical2}10448 TDC: YEAR ONE A Report from the Coordinators TEACHERS FOR A his inaugural issue of Democratic Cul- Our major lobbying effort has been di- DEMOCRATIC- CULTURE ture marks the first anniversary of the rected at the increasingly coercive imposition of formation of Teachers for a Demo-a conservative agenda on the National Endow- Co-Coordinators: cratic Culture. It was during the summer of ment for the Humanities. In April, we organized Gerald Graff 1991 that teachers around the country began toa protest against the packing of the NEH advi- Gregory Jay discuss the need for an organization that wouldsory council with outspoken opponents of new Provisional Steering Committee: Steve Fuller counter the publicity campaign against "politi-directions in the humanities (including many Jane Gallop cal correctness." That September a group of usmembers of the National Association of Schol- Barbara Gold drafted the TDC statement of principles, and ars). We issued press releases, called the atten- 1)ominick LaCapra articles about the organization appeared in the tion of many in the media to our concerns, and Amy Lang Ellen Messer-Davidow Chronicle of Higher Education and on the front organized a letter-writing campaign to the Sen- Patricia P.amsey page of the New York Times. ate Labor and Human Resources Committee. David Shumway Over eleven hundred teachers have nowTDC members met with Senate staff represen- James Slevin joined the organization, representing virtuallytatives in Washington and Chicago. Our efforts Judith Stacey Dan Tompkins every discipline in the humanities and socialhave been reported by the Chronicle of Higher Mark Tushnet sciences as well as law, mathematics, medicine, Education and in a recent article on NEH Chair- Richard Yarborough and the health sciences. Our members comeman Lynne Cheney in Lingua Franca (David Newsletter Creators: from two and four-year colleges as well as state Segal, "Cheney's Command" [September-Oc- Susan Lowry Liana Odreic universities and private research institutionstober, 1992]). and contain a remarkable diversity of view- As many of you know, the nominees to the points. We are encouraged by the rapid growth council were ultimately approved in spite of our Inside in our numbers and believe that TDC can con- protest, evidently in a trade-off involving other A report on the media blitz tinue to play an influential role in today's cul- important issues before the committee. (as re- surrounding the Women's tural debates. [Killed in the Chronicle: "Deal on Abortion Bill Studies Program at MIT In our first year. TDC has sponsored con- Said to Pave the Way for 8 Nominees to Hu- ferences, engaged in lobbying activity, and manities Council," July 8. 1992). Nevertheless, The battle is joined in the gained the beginnings of a voice in the national our intervention was effective in delaying con- debate over the term "Political media. We supported a well-attended confer-sideration of the nominees before the Senate Correctness" ence in March on deconstruction and the publicCommittee, and gained recognition for TDC in media at Loyola University. In April we con-Congress.Along the way, many of us have Academics begin to respond to ducted a joint conference. entitled "Reconstruct- made important contacts and gained experience conservative attacks on the ing Higher Ed :ation," at Hunter College inthat promises to be valuable in the future. The academy New York with the Union of Democratic Intel- NEH itself will he up for full reauthorization in lectuals. the spring of 1993, and TDC plans to become Review of two books Regional chapters of TDC have been orga- involved in the hearings. Though we nay have concerning the debate over nized in New England. the Washington. D. C. lost the battle, we still hope to win the war. multiculturalism area. and in the Midwest. and a TDC disciplin- Finally, we believe the publication of Demo- ary caucus has been formed by members in the crude Culture (now projected for three times a Further observations on the field of Classics. We continue to work withyear) will significantly advance our organiza- NASNEH connection members (and invite volunteers) to form chap- tion, give our members a forum for expressing ters and caucuses in other regions and fields.their views, and thereby sharpen the The corporate bankrolling of This organizational activity has produced aorganization's program.In short, we think tht.. NAS and other provisional national Steering Committee, whose TDC's accomplishments in year one give strong conservativeacademe; members have agreed to serve until a perma-evidence that our of ganization can play a major movements nent committee can he elected. role in the national cultural debate. NEWSCLIPS The Making of a PCStory Amy Schrager Lang SHIFT IN THE WIND? rr he lawsuit filed last April againstMIT by Nor would one Olow from the story that There are signs that the professor of literature Cynthia Griffin Wolff has been a powerful figure at MIT who ideological smear campaign Wolff provides an instructive example of thehas largely had her way there. In 1980 she was against new academic movements way the now-familiar stories ofdecline andwelcomed as a tenured full professor by the that has had its way in the public terrorism in the university are manufactured and literature section; in 1985, MIT awarded her media for so long may at last be circulated. Wolff charges MIT with acquiesc-one of the first endowed chairs in thehumani- getting exposed for what it is. We ing in "a persistent and continuing pattern ofties.She has chaired the literature section's may he guilty of wishful thinking, professional, political and sexual harassment."curriculum committee and has served on the but several recent publications Her suffering began, she claims in the legal institute-wide Committee on Educational Policy. lead us to hope that the truth may complaint, with her conscientious opposition to Wolff s interventions in promotion and tenure be catching up to the intrepid foes the tenuring of two female colleagues and cul- cases have succeeded, not failed. Her efforts
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