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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS N umerous individuals contributed to making this book possible, including the many who granted me personal interviews. I am grateful for their wiUingness to discuss this controversial event and set of issues after almost thirty years. In addition, I am in the special debt ofcertain members of the Cornell community who, for their own reasons, felt attached to the project and went the extra mile on my behalf by providing special assistance or data. These individuals, who represent a variety of views on the subject, include (in alphabetical order) Isadore Blumen, Joyce Cima, Dale Corson, George Hildebrand, Keith Johnson, Alfred Kahn, Robert Kilpatrick, Robert Miller, Richard Polenberg,JeremyRabkin, Paul Rahe, Allan Sindler, Art Spitzer, and Neal Stamp. Richard Polenberg and James Miller read the manuscript and made thoughtful and probing recommendations , as did an anonymous reader. Peter Agree, my editor at Cornell University Press, has been indispensable in the development of thjs project, and I thank him for his unflappable support and encouragement. I would like to thank two others who worked on the manuscript: Catherine Rice ofCornell University Press, who worked hard and conscientiously on many aspects ofthe book, including procuring photographs, and Bruce Emmer, who djd yeoman and excellent work as my copy editor. Finally, I would like to thank Elaine Engst, Librarian of the Kroch Archives at the Cornell University Library, and her excellent staff, for the professional assistance and friendliness they provided during my four trips to Ithaca. I am indebted to those students at Madison who have either assisted me in research for this book or have inspired me by their active commitment to the principles of free speech and intellectual freedom on this campus, where the struggle, having begun in 1992, is now starting to bear fruit. Several such students merit mention: Juliet Berger, Katie Culver, Shira Diner, Bill Dixon, Christine FredenxIII berg, Evan Gerstman, Tim Graham, Anat Hakim, Lee Hawkins, Tim Hudson, Amy Kasper, Simon Olson, Mitch Pickerill, Christina Ruggiero, Ian Rosenberg, Kate Ross (who first had the idea for this book), Bob Schwoch, Jason Sheppard, Mark Sniderman, and Martin Sweet. Special recognition goes to Sheerly Avni and Kevin St. John-my intellectual consciences from different sides of the political spectrum. They did research on the Cornell crisis and the issues surrounding it and presented me with some of the most challenging and probing questions I have encountered from any research assistants. May we work together again, for, as Nietzsche said, eitlrllal ist keinmal. lowe a special debt to George Fisher and Stephen Wallenstein, whose unpublished manuscript Open. Breeches: Guns at Comel/, written soon after the crisis ended, helped me to organize and clarify my thinking. I discuss this work and its authors at the end of Chapter One, where I explain my data and approach. I am grateful to several colleagues and friends for their help and inspiration. Lester Hunt has taught me, in both word and deed, much about the principles at stake in this book. I also want to recognize Lee Hansen, who has demonstrated his commitment to academic freedom in word and deed, as have Mary Anderson and my colJeagues on the Faculty Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights. So has my lifelong friend Dale McConnaughay. A newspaper editor with obstreperous hard-headedness and integrity, Dale has tirelessly forced me to face the problems of the university from an outsider's perspective, where we never look as good as we imagine. Robert Drechsel has enlightened me by his example in the trenches and with his scholarship. Stanley Kutler has given me characteristically enthusiastic and insightful encouragement from the start, as hasJohn Wright, whose confidence and tireless effort on my behalf in the earlier stages of this project I will not soon forget. I hope thatJohn's instincts will prove victorious. Michael Gauger performed first-rate editing on an earlier version of this work and provided me with several articles and ideas concerning the project. A soldier on a winter's night, Michael has also enriched my thinking about the issues surrounding universities through his unique blend ofknowledge, commitment to the life of the mind, and friendship. And last but not least, James Baughman has contributed to the manuscript in his own superb and inimitable ways, which include editing, providing relevant literature, ideas, and historical perspective, and offering friendship and advice that are fine beyond measurement. Finally, I want to thank my wife, Susan Downs, for her understanding and partnership in the pursuit of the principles discussed in this...

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