ABSTRACT
In the dialectic of charge, response, and confrontation which dominates the campus these days, one of the most familiar disputes revolves about the role of the university as supporter or opponent of government policy. The university is engaged in a variety of extra-educational activities, such as contract research, the scheduling of job interviews, transmission of class standing to draft boards, and so forth. Individuals within the university may engage in whatever political activities they like, but for the university as an institution to take an official political stand would be in violation of its fundamental principles of value neutrality and academic freedom. The call for relevance is the characteristic demand of the radicals when they turn their attention to university education itself. Universities may be educational institutions, but like corporations, government bureaus, or armies, they rally to the cry of all bureaucratic bodies: Efficiency.
