"James E. Gunn - Kampus" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gunn James E)

At issue during this period were questions of justice, governance, and the obligation and right of
universities to act as parents to their students, placing limits on their personal behavior. The nature and
purposes of education were debated, and who should be in charge of the process. Students insisted that
they were consumers of education and had all the rights of consumers to pick and choose and evaluate,
and even to hire and fire. Universities have not been the same since. Although most students have
become more conservative in their political beliefs and more concerned about jobs after graduation than
the politics of university governance, the authority of the universities, and particularly of their faculties, to
determine curricula and establish standards has never been entirely regained, nor the high esteem in which
universities were held or the financial support they enjoyed before the 1960s.

The student rebels were idealistic and drunk with power, filled with rage against the injustices of society
and sanctimonious in their belief that they were the first generation to feel that way. The purity of their
motives gave them license to strike out against any opposition, and to throw off society's inhibitions
against drugs and sex and sloth. It was the best of worlds; it was the worst of worlds.

I was in the midst of all this, as Administrative Assistant to the Chancellor for University Relations at the
University of Kansas, one of the universities that developed as a kind of underground radical railroad
from coast to coast.Kampus grew out of that experience. Its events occur in the world the student
radicals might have created if they had won.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Kampus

1
 Karnival

Karnival is a bit like a circus, a bit like a bacchanalia, a bit like a Beaux Arts ball, a bit like a mass orgy, a