Submitted by Peter Edgar(Australia), Sep 20, 2007 at 08:30
Quite right, DP, and long overdue. I thought that universities were about the search for truth and the common pursuit of true judgement. In 1961 when I graduated so they were. When I went back in the 1990's for some postgraduate work I was shocked at the iron curtain that had descended on the groves of acadame. Peter Edgar.
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