50 YEARS AGO March 1969.

• Author: Litzenberger, Cheri Kent
• Position: FROM THE ARCHIVES - The university and the military-industrial complex - Brief article

"The constant criticism that the contemporary university is 'a tool of decadent capitalist culture's military-industrial complex' is more than a protest against napalm and nuclear weapon producers. By remaining in the service of dominant social institutions (which according to New Leftists are industry and the military), universities train intellectuals to become a part of those very institutions. Instead of producing critical intellectuals who will oppose and hence change...