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The present crisis facing intellectuals & the university is rooted in the collapse of the boundaries that traditionally have marked out a position of privileged particularity for them. This collapse has exposed a contradiction in the goals of the university & affirmative action (AA): the former is committed to excellence & the cultivation of distinction, while the latter is obliged to seek equity & uniformity. It is concluded that AA undermines academic standards as well as the university's nonbureaucratic collegiality. In Ivory Tower and Red Tape: Reply to Adler, David Pan argues that Adler's identification of a contradiction between the goals of AA & the university forces his attack on AA into a defense of particularist university interests.

THE AUTHOR COMMENTS UPON THE RISE IN ETHNIC ACTIVISM IN THE SOVIET UNION IN THE YEARS 1986-89, NOTING THAT THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT MAY HAVE CREATED A WELLSPRING FOR SUCH MOVEMENTS. THREE AREAS ARE ADDRESSED AS A WAY OF SUGGESTING A FRAMEWORK FOR ALL OF THE ACTIVISM. THE AUTHOR CONSIDERS HOW THE NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS HAS CHANGED THE RULES. THIS IS FOLLOWED BY AN EXAMINATION OF HOW THE THREE MAJOR PLAYERS -- THE NON-RUSSIANS GROUPS, THE RUSSIANS, AND MOSCOW ITSELF -ARE ENGAGING IN NEW KINDS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR. THE AUTHOR ASSESSES WHETHER ANY OF THIS CHANGE LAST, FOCUSING MAINLY IN THE PARTICIPATORY/NEGOTIATING ETHNIC POLITICAL STYLE AND THE REASONS FOR ITS DOMINANCE.