ANTHONY ARNOVE: Yeah, and, in fact, just a couple days ago, the board of trustees at Purdue gave him a $58,000 pay bonus after only six months in office. Yes. CORNEL WEST: Wow! ANTHONY ARNOVE: On top of his $410,000 salary. So he’s being backed up by the board, which he, as governor, had helped put in by appointing them as trustees. There’s now been a pushback. Faculty at Purdue University are organizing. A number of teachers’ unions and National Education Associations are putting pressure on Daniels. But he is very much asserting—you know, holding to his position and escalating his rhetoric around Howard’s work. So I think this really is going to continue to be a fight. AMY GOODMAN: And is it limited to Howard Zinn? ANTHONY ARNOVE: Well, it’s not limited to Howard Zinn. In fact, there’s a broader attack on critical education studies. James Loewen has written a piece in which he pointed out that when he wrote a book about "sundown towns" and highlighted the case of Greensburg, Indiana, which is where Honda built a non-union auto factory recently in the state of Indiana with a huge subsidy organized by Mitch Daniels, that he was supposed to give three talks organized by the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. Those talks were canceled under pressure by Governor Daniels’ office. So, it’s a very politicized situation. And they’re aware that there’s a certain kind of history which is dangerous to people like Mitch Daniels. If you teach a history that is about the history of social movements, about the history of people challenging those in power, about the importance of unions, about the importance of civil rights struggles, that threatens the agenda of Mitch Daniels as governor, as president of the university, and as someone with national political aspirations.
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