From the issue dated April 11, 2003
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Closing the Gates
Many in academe, though, shuddered to hear that homeland security would grow even tighter. While stepped-up domestic defense since September 11, 2001, has offered some people not only reassurance but new opportunities, others have seen firsthand that government efforts to thwart attacks at home come at a price. The cliché that "everything changed," certainly true for those who lost loved ones, is true in a different sense for college administrators, professors, and students. In this special section and in accompanying essays in The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle examines how foreign students and scholars have been harassed, research projects have been stalled, and librarians have been forced to compromise their professional ethics. How some academics now find their jobs unmanageable, their futures uncertain, or their civil liberties trampled. And how others have been inspired, seeing new urgency for their work or new possibilities for their careers. The government's heightened vigilance has no doubt made it more difficult for terrorists to attack Americans. But that vigilance has also, for better or worse, changed the fabric of academic life. http://chronicle.com Section: Special Report Volume 49, Issue 31, Page A12 |
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