The articles in this section are position papers: strong, often
polemical, arguments for a particular point of view. They are
mainly the work of men who have not only pondered their
views, but who have acted on them. Represented here are the
competing ideologies which are a primary manifestation of the
crisis in higher education.

In choosing these authors we tried to cover a diversity of
points on the political spectrum. Certainly, in terms of range, we
have been successful. Yet, we would have been even more
pleased had more of our conservative and more of our black
writers been able to respond. As it stands, the white and left
perspectives predominate. Nonetheless, the conservatives are
favored by two excellent spokesmen, Dr. Max Rafferty, Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction for the State of California, and
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, acting President of San Francisco State
College. The black militants are represented by the articulate
statements of Professor Nathan Hare, former head of the Black
Studies Department at San Francisco State, and Stokeley
Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. Black moderates are repre-
sented by Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP, and
Melvin Posey, a University of California graduate student active
in the affairs of both the BSU and NAACP. Todd Gitlin, Robert
Chrisman, Bill Barlow and Peter Shapiro represent the left
position of the continuum.

The importance of these works is not derived from a verid-
ical appraisal of student crisis, but from the fact that the ideas
they embody are the ideas that are being hurled against each other
in the struggle for power in higher education.

Several of the articles dealing with Black Power do not relate
directly to specific crises, or even to the general issue of student
dissent, but they are critical for an understanding of what Black
Power rhetoric--which has been much distorted in the popular
Press--really means.

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