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<blockquote>To rewrite the past and construct the present from the perspective of the privileged and the powerful.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lwGMluExdr8C&pg=PA131 The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society], by [[Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.]]</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>To rewrite the past and construct the present from the perspective of the privileged and the powerful.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lwGMluExdr8C&pg=PA131 The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society], by [[Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.]]</ref></blockquote>
In the 1960's, groups like [[SDS]] sprouted and grew out of the wasteland of professors with politically agenda-driven curricula. By the time the 1960's came to an end, many radicals decided they were not yet done. One professor, Jay Parini, explained the radicals' transition this way:
In the 1960s, groups like [[SDS]] sprouted and grew out of the wasteland of professors with politically agenda-driven curricula. By the time the 1960s came to an end, many radicals decided they were not yet done. One professor, Jay Parini, explained the radicals' transition this way:
<blockquote>After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn't just crawl back into our library cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost and it seemed for a while - to the unobservant - that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WUcWaePccnkC&pg=PA18 Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus], by [[Dinesh D'Souza]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oVFrShFBTSEC&pg=PT47 A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos: And What to Do About Them]</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn't just crawl back into our library cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost and it seemed for a while - to the unobservant - that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WUcWaePccnkC&pg=PA18 Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus], by [[Dinesh D'Souza]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oVFrShFBTSEC&pg=PT47 A Field Guide to Left-Wing Wackos: And What to Do About Them]</ref></blockquote>