Now the leftist screechers are demanding that Wiesenfeld be removed from the board of trustees because by professing an opinion they don't like, he has destroyed what passes for academicfreedom in their twisted little Orwellian world.
He spent his working life largely at Harvard, relishing the intellectual fizz as the wartime generation returned to study, using wisely the great freedom granted to tenured professors like himself, but increasingly disgusted in later years byacademic trendiness and moral cowardice.
One such policy suggests that colleges reform their academic employment policies by replacing tenure with one of a number of alternatives that would preserve the holy grail of higher education, academicfreedom, which is necessary to prevent faculty from being arbitrarily dismissed for saying or writing things that administrators or influential outsiders consider wrong or offensive.