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...Keenan says he spent two years in Leningrad University so he knows the limitations of education in an atmosphere where free speech is hampered. But he says, "Despite all that, it is better that Leningrad be open than closed...
...Keenan says he agrees with the Med School's decision last month to sever its ties with an elite medical center in Iran because, in his words, "it was a medical care facility for people who already have enough medical care." But he says the politics of the grad school, which will be composed of 40 per cent social and natural science courses and 20 per cent medical services, pose no such problems. And he doesn't seem too worried about preserving free speech within the class room. "No prudent person would attempt to predict how individuals will behave...
...threat of the secret police on campus does not deter Keenan, who says he is not sure whether to believe all the reports of their role in classes. He says he has "no other information" than what he reads in the Village Voice, adding that he doesn't know anybody who does know more. Keenan doesn't doubt the existence of the secret police; rather, he applies his principle of moral calculus to them. "As someone who spends most of his waking hours dealing with a country with which a good deal more is known about the secret police...
...Keenan says there has been no pressure on him to resign his overseeing commission. He adds, however, that friends of his in organizations like Amnesty International would prefer that no one work with Iran. He says that a boycott by himself "would be a hollow, ineffective and not necessarily morally brave option. Americans I think without being crusaders can bring moral pressure to bear in a way that maybe others won't be able to. But they will not be effective if they are simplistic." And, he adds, "If one were to accept Amnesty International's position for example, there...
...those who believe that educational involvement in Iran is morally wrong, Keenan asks, "Would you collaborate in an institution in the Soviet Union, Algeria, Surinam? Would you let someone die of typhus because somebody else in that country is doing something wrong? You have to decide if the university is a morally uplifting institution. And in my view...