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ACLAS
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
Forum allows exchange of
ideas; teachers speak out
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The second speaker of the fo­
rum was Averill.
Averill compared a composi­
tion text book from the late sixties
to one that is used today.
“The . earlier one, ironically
titled Toward Liberal Education,
has 100 authors. Only one is a
woman. There are no African
American writers. The only Na­
tive American was a Supreme Court
Justice. There is one author from a
third world country, India, but the
selection the editors chose was a
piece on the German Philosopher,
Wittgenstien. So the only other
person, other than the one woman,
who is not an elitist white male in
this text book, is Buddha,” said
Averill of the book from the six­
ties.
“Now, let’s take a look at The
Harvest Reader. We have 33 women
authors instead of one, and 47 men.
Fourteen of these authors are people
of color.”
Averill concluded her speech
with a statement on political cor­
rectness and academic freedom.
“Some of these threatened
academics respond by claiming that
they are the victims of a political
correctness conspiracy. But it is
not legitimate to use the defense of
academic freedom to prevent a full
and open discussion of diverse points
of view. The only way we can
resolve this is to keep sight of aca­
demic freedom for liberals and
conservatives alike, whether they
are faculty members or Clackamas
students.”
The next speaker was Epstein
who was introduced by moderator
Harlow as “My favorite conserva­
tive sexist.”
“What John and I are trying to
do here is not to deny their aca­
demic freedom but to protect ours -
which is under, of course, attack in
several ways,” said Epstein at the
beginning of his speech.
On the issue of present texts,
Epstein posed the question: “Why
do we have so many different writ­
ers?"
“The answer is that they are
put there for political reasons,” Ep­
stein said. “If they weren’t put in
there, there would be a movement,
both at the publishers’ level and the
professors’ level, to exclude that
book.”
The final speaker of the state­
ment period was Uris.
“Epstein mentions this issue
of political correctness. I want to
mention two movies: Thelma and
Louise'and Cape Fear,” said Uris.
“In Thelma and Louise, the
critics became extremely upset -
largely male critics I point out -
because two women behaved in a
mannerthatis uncharacteristic, tra­
ditionally, for women in films.
Instead of being victims, they were
victimizers.
“In Cape Fear, on the other
hand, the critics loved the movie
because the women were the clear
victims.”
Following the five minute
speeches from each of the speak­
ers, the speakers questioned each
other then the audience had the op­
portunity to voice their opinions
and ask questions.
After the forum, the teachers
involved expressed how they felt
about it.
“It went quite well. There was
a tendency towards name calling.
We need a group of campus intel­
lectuals,” Uris said.
“It was stimulating,” said
Averill afterwards. “I am very
pleased to see students who are
very honest about what their be­
liefs are.”
“Frank was a very good mod­
erator,” Epstein said in retrospect.
“The forum was very nice and pleas­
ant.”
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