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Reviews charges that community colleges seek to "cool out" low ability students, perpetuate class structure, train paraprofessionals at public expense for private profit, and shepherd unemployed youth. Proposes an alternative system of postsecondary institutions and employers to provide remedial, general, and vocational education through nontraditional means. (GB)

The article offers information about the role of the academic community in the effective implementation of foreign policy in the U.S. The controversy on foreign policy in the country highlights a condition of stress growing increasingly acute in the academic community. However, before the academic community can become a critical public applying an effective strategy of protest, professors and students will need a strong voice in the government of the university. The teach-ins represent a challenge to fundamental tenets of an economic system.