The shadow university

Description

Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct world-view through censorship, double standards, and a judicial system without due process. The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, staunch civil libertarians and active defenders of free inquiry on campus, lay bare the totalitarian mindset that undergirds speech codes, conduct codes, and "campus life" bureaucracies, through which a cadre of deans and counselors indoctrinate students and faculty in an ideology that favors group rights over individual rights, sacrificing free speech and academic freedom to spare the sensitivities of currently favored groups.

First Sentence

On the night of January 13, 1993, Eden Jacobowitz, a fresh at the University of Pennsylvania, had been writing a paper for an English class when a sorority began celebrating its Founder's Day beneath the windows of his high-rise dormitory apartment.

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Other Editions

• The shadow university: the betrayal of liberty on America's campusesFree Press1998-01-01
• The shadow universityHarperPerennial1999-01-01
• The Shadow UniversityPaperbackHarper Paperbacks1999-10-01
• The Shadow UniversityHarper Paperbacks1999-10-01
• The shadow universityPowells2000-01-01