Abstract
What is academic freedom? It is not an unalloyed concept, and its meanings have many hues and variations. Yet, put simply, but in a somewhat restrictive way, academic freedom at least means that the men of learning within an institution devoted to scholarship must be free to engage in their pursuits.' In this sense, academic freedom applies to all scholars whether they be members of a faculty or student body.2 Its specific referent is to that common calling of the intellectual life, the pursuit and understanding of truth, which serves as the adhesive for an otherwise amorphous group known as the community of scholars. In a more complex sense, academic freedom also refers to a place of meeting and to a condition of society. In years past, scholars performed their functions by gathering together in the academy,3 the first of which was founded by Plato. In today's interdependent world, the academy consists of our colleges and universities whose true functions, in a free society, are threefold: the creation, communication, and conservation of knowledge.4 It is on our campuses where one finds an immediate need for academic
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