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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.