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Back Issues of BCAS Publications Published on This Site Are Intended for Non-Commercial Use Only Back issues of BCAS publications published on this site are intended for non-commercial use only. Photographs and other graphics that appear in articles are expressly not to be reproduced other than for personal use. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Vol. 5, No. 3: November 1973 • Frank Baldwin - The Jason Project: Academic Freedom and Moral Responsibility • Herbert Bix - Regional Integration: Japan and South Korea in America’s Asian Policy • John Comer - The Assassination of Ngo Dihn Diem and the Front/ Poetry • Jon Halliday - What Happened in Korea? Rethinking Korean History, 1945-1953 • Mark Selden - Imperialism and Asia: A Brief Introduction to the Literature BCAS/Critical Asian Studies www.bcasnet.org CCAS Statement of Purpose Critical Asian Studies continues to be inspired by the statement of purpose formulated in 1969 by its parent organization, the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). CCAS ceased to exist as an organization in 1979, but the BCAS board decided in 1993 that the CCAS Statement of Purpose should be published in our journal at least once a year. We first came together in opposition to the brutal aggression of the United States in Vietnam and to the complicity or silence of our profession with regard to that policy. Those in the field of Asian studies bear responsibility for the consequences of their research and the political posture of their profession. We are concerned about the present unwillingness of specialists to speak out against the implications of an Asian policy committed to en- suring American domination of much of Asia. We reject the le- gitimacy of this aim, and attempt to change this policy. We recognize that the present structure of the profession has often perverted scholarship and alienated many people in the field. The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars seeks to develop a humane and knowledgeable understanding of Asian societies and their efforts to maintain cultural integrity and to confront such problems as poverty, oppression, and imperialism. We real- ize that to be students of other peoples, we must first understand our relations to them. CCAS wishes to create alternatives to the prevailing trends in scholarship on Asia, which too often spring from a parochial cultural perspective and serve selfish interests and expansion- ism. Our organization is designed to function as a catalyst, a communications network for both Asian and Western scholars, a provider of central resources for local chapters, and a commu- nity for the development of anti-imperialist research. Passed, 28–30 March 1969 Boston, Massachusetts l II Volume 5, Number 3 November 1973 Contents Frank Baldwin 2 The Jason Project: Academic Freedom and Moral Responsibility Herbert P. Bix 14 Regional Integration: Japan and South Korea in America's Asian Policy Jon Halliday 36 What Happened in Korea? Rethinking Korean History 1945-1953/review article John Comer 4S "The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem" and "The Front"/poetry Mark Selden 46 Imperialism and Asia: A Brief Introduction to the Literature/bibliography 48 Contributors Editors: Steve Andors / Nina Adams Managing Editor: Jon Livingston Book Review Editors: Felicia Oldfather / Moss Roberts Staff for this issue: Betsey Cobb / Mary-Ellen I Quintana I Editorial Board: Frank Baldwin / Marianne Bastid / Herbert Bix / Helen Chauncey / Noam Chomsky / John Dower / Kathleen Gough / Richard Kagan / Huynh Kim Khanh / Perry Link / Jonathan Mirsky / Victor Nee / Gail Omvedt / James Peck / Ric Pfeffer / Franz Schurmann / Mark Selden / Hari Sharma / Yamashita Tatsuo. General Correspondence: Bay Area Institute, 604 Mission Street, Room 1001, San Francisco, California 94105 Manuscripts: Steve Andors, P.O. Box 24, Minetto, N.Y. 13115, in three copies if possible Book Reviews: Felicia Oldfather, Box 579, Trinidad, Ca. 95570 Typesetting: Archetype, Berkeley Printing: Up Press, Redwood City. BULLETIN OF CONCERNED ASIAN SCHOLARS, November 1973, Volume 5, Number 3. Published quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and winter. $6.00; student rate $4.00; library rate $10.00; foreign rates: $7.00. Jon Livingston, Publisher, Bay Area Institute, 604 Mission St., San Francisco, California 94105. Second class postage paid at San Francisco, California. Copyright © Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1973 . © BCAS. All rights reserved. For non-commercial use only. www.bcasnet.org .­ ,......-----------------------­ The Jason Project: Academic Freedom and Moral Responsibility by Frank Baldwin "You don't have to be German to be a good German." appeal directly to the individual consciences of the Jason (Graffiti on the wall of Pupin Hall, Columbia University, April, members." 1972.) By noon the New York Regional Anti-War 'Faculty (NYRAWF), which included professors from 20 colleges and On April 24, 1972, a group of 40 faculty members from universities, members of Scientists and Engineers for Social Columbia University and other schools in the New York area and Political Action (SESPA) and a few Columbia students assembled in a light drizzle in front of Columbia's Low had seized control of Pupin. Persons in the building were Library, the university's administrative center. They tied allowed to leave, but no one was permitted to enter. The identifying white arm bands on each other, and a spokesman protesters used "coercive picketing" to deny access to the announced the start of a nonviolent protest against the building: they linked arms at all entrances and refused to move activities of five Columbia physics professors. aside. As the group walked toward Pupin Hall, home of the Inside the building physics professors were confronted physics department and other scientific research, university with the products and implications of their research in an President William J. McGill attempted to dissuade them. emotional teach-in on the air war in Vietnam. Physics Failing that, he obtained assurances (which were honored) that students, overwhelmingly hostile to the protest, watched in the protest would be peaceful and that valuable equipment in angry amazement as some of their professors were hectored the building would be safeguarded. The faculty members with charges of genocide and war crime. entered Pupin to protest academic responsibility for a U.S. air The protesters expected swift arrest and removal from war pouring death on Indochina; President McGill went back the building. Each had brought bail money and made to his command post in Low Library to plan their arrest and arrangements for legal aid, However, the general protest at the restoration of order to his troubled campus. Columbia against the reopening of the air war spread, and the The Pupin protest, in the words of one leaflet, "was not administration took no action the first day. (The use of police directed against students, faculty, workers or President McGill. to clear a student-occupied building the next day caused a near There was no demand that anyone be fired." The anti-war riot and led to a decision by McGill not to employ the police protesters' demand was that Professors Henry J. Foley, Leon to remove the Pupin pr.otesters). The Pupin group now Ruderman, Norman Christ, Richard Garwin and Malvin blocked all doors with chains, bedded down on borrowed Ruderman resign from the Jason Division of the Institute for sleeping bags and awaited arrest. The unexpected grace period, Defense Analyses (IDA). The Jason members were charged although often interrupted by false alarms of imminent police with participation in the scientific research that had led to the arrival, was used to print leaflets explaining the protest, to electronic battlefield, the air war and the use of heinous speak with other campus groups and to distribute information weapons in Indochina. The civil disobedience sought "by on classified research and the electronic battlefield. dramatic moral witness, to call the university community's Three days later, on April 27, conservative students and attention to the war research of the Jason Division, and to faculty members burst into Pupin with fists flying; they beat 2 © BCAS. All rights reserved. For non-commercial use only. www.bcasnet.org and dragged the protesters from the building, and announced known. A peaceful informational picket begun by SESPA in to watching university administrators that Pupin was cleared. 1971 had attracted little attention or support. The anti-war faculty regrouped that evening and reentered the IDA is a "private, non-profit" research institute for the building for a nightlong sit-in that included intensive Department of Defense (DOD). It began in 1955 with a confrontation and dialogue with physics students now $500,000 capital fund grant from the Ford Foundation, the "guarding" Pupin. The following morning the protesters cold-war patron saint of hard-to-fund intelligence and marched out singing "Solidarity Forever" and pledged to quasi-intelligence enterprises. IDA was housed in the Pentagon continue the demonstration in the weeks ahead. for years and did classified research exclusively for the DOD. The Pupin protest was one of the most unusual and Organized initially by a consortium of universities with Ivy significant in almost a decade of campus turmoil. Unusual League presidents prominent on its board, IDA was a premier because the protesters were not students but faculty-some government weapons and counterinsurgency think tank until taking direct action against a part of their own university, all engulfed in the 1968 student protest. When the propriety of apparently engaged in a protest against
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