The perils of "openness " at France's Vincennes campus
The weekly Paris Match calls it "that big pimple." Minister for the Universities Alice Saunier-Seïté claims that a "horse registered and was accepted." The place, she has declared, "has become a forbidden city where drugs are sold openly for the Paris region." In fact she once sputtered to a Communist senator, "It is what will become of all France if you ever come to power. Vincennes is Italy!"
The subject of these remarks is France's first great experiment in open admissions education, the "University of Paris...
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