`New Orthodoxy' on Campus Assailed; Conservative Academicians Fault Studies of Pop Culture From: The Washington Post | Date: November 14, 1988| Author: | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Higher education is descending into intellectual chaos, warned a conference of nearly 300 academics meeting here this weekend.

Dominated by administrators and faculty drawn from the radical left of the 1960s, academia has begun to treat popular culture as if it merited the same treatment as Platonic studies, and has replaced standards of excellence with a kind of curricular affirmative action, said the scholars, most of whom would identify themselves as academic conservatives.

They pointed to the "rise of a new orthodoxy" embodied in what they see as several destructive trends: a "radical ...

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