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...world of academia has been astir lately with revelations about historic books and documents. Subscribers receiving their copy of the quarterly Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America found it devoted largely to analyses of paper and ink used in the Gutenberg Bible; the research shed new light on the production techniques used in Johann Gutenberg's print- shop. In Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI Research Press was shipping copies of The Calov Bible of J.S. Bach, which reveals that markings on the pages of the Bible owned by Bach were made by the great composer. And in Washington, the journal...
...could compare Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to an all-night Master's Sherry with the stops pulled out--fill your drinks and fasten your seat belts, academia is not all fun and games...
...POLITICAL bias aside, Accuracy in Media's goal of eliminating misrepresentation and inaccuracy on the six o'clock news is a noble one. However, just as classroom and media are fundamentally different, the goals of Accuracy in Academia and Accuracy in Media are not equivalent. To eliminate bias and opinion from teaching is anything but noble. It is, in fact, inaccurate--representing a distorted view of the process of education...
...would hope that an organization founded on such dubious and contradictory principles as Accuracy in Academia would collapse of its own weight. However, one would have hoped the very same thing three decades ago when an unknown Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy stood on the Senate floor with his own set of dubious principles. The American public has the unfortunate ability to support a good measure of absurdity, so long as it wears the mask of good-old patriotic Red hunting...
Accuracy in Academia has yet to gain the credibility or the influence to seriously threaten the academic community. As the saying goes, however, time is on its side--unless teachers and students make a strong stand for the integrity of academic freedom...