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Dear Sidney:

	Miro Todorovich gave me a copy of the July {\it Measure}.  Maybe
you and Anthony Lewis are looking at different parts of the same elephant.
Maybe what frustrates him and his friends is that in spite of having good
control of campus media, the ability to elect candidates to student
offices, professors spouting leftist lines in class, administrators
enforcing campus rules in a pro-left discriminatory way and the ability to
break up a speech by any supporter of U.S. policy, the majority of
students are more conservative and patriotic than at any time since the
1950s.  It must be very frustrating to conspirators and manipulators to be
completely successful in the manipulation and still be unable to mobilize
electoral majorities.

	I agree that leftist control of campus institutions is harmful,
and I would like to find some way of ending it.  Indeed Accuracy in
Academia is unlikely to succeed.  However, it seems to me that unless
Accuracy in Academia has adherents with administrative power on campuses and
who abuse that power, then their activity comes under the heading
of freedom of speech, and their method of getting the data is ok.
Criticizing specific professors for specific lectures on the basis
of attending the lectures strikes me as legitimate.  Of course, Accuracy
in Academia shows no sign of getting any influence on campus at all.
I must admit some ignorance here, because I haven't read what
Accuracy in Academia writes.

	Finally, I have come around to the view that I should make
some statement against the expulsion of Stephen Mosher.  Miro tells
me that you have been in contact with him.  I would like to talk to
you about it when you return to Stanford.

Best Regards,