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jr> John Rehring

jr> OK, Gary, so you say "McCartney isn't doing anything different than aca-
    demicians"????  Please tell me the name of one (just one, that's all I 
    ask) CU-Boulder professor/"academician" who has more name recognition 
    than Big Bill (tm) and who uses that recognition (overtly or covertly) to 
    further his or her own separate-from-the-university cause.  Just one.  

  What about Charles King? His ideas certainly differ from the university's,
  and he's reasonably well-known from his column in the Daily and his occas-
  sional letters to the Denver papers. 

  There's certainly no lack of professors who use their office to further
  their own personal agendas -- at conferences, seminars, and in the lecture
  hall. McCartney is honest enough to present his beliefs as his own, not
  some objective view of reality. I recall a lecture I had when I was a stu-
  dent in which a professor declared unequivocally (this was in '84-'85)
  that the US had nothing to fear from the USSR, that its society was in many
  ways better than the US, and in fact it was merely trying to survive the
  aggression of the US. Now that, John, is quite a load.

jr> Seems to me that he *is* doing something different.

  Yeah -- he doesn't apologize for being a Christian, like he's expected to.
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