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Erratum to: “Alma Mater, Almus Pater,” a review by David Gordon, Fall 2011 (vol. 24, no. 3)

Spring 2012

Erratum to: Acad. Quest. (2011) 24:371–375

DOI 10.1007/s12129-011-9241-z

“Alma Mater, Almus Pater,” David Gordon’s review of Howard S. Schwartz’s Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction in the Fall 2011 Academic Questions (vol. 24, no. 3), contains this sentence in the penultimate paragraph:

Schwartz’s speculation that the 1973 Antioch strike was, due to the presence of “ghetto-bred…swaggering black males,” about the politics of sex, may leave readers equally skeptical (and disconcerted).

The sentence is incorrect on two points. The words in quotation marks are not an exact quotation. Furthermore, they are not Schwartz’s words but come from an extended quotation that he cites from a draft version of Crisis and Change in an Organization: A Case Study of Antioch College, by J.O. Yalman and E.K. Wilson. The original sentence by Yalman and Wilson is the second sentence below

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