"For years Columbia Trustees had evicted tenants from their homes,taken land through city deals,and fired workers for trying to form a union.For years they had trained officers for Vietnam who,as ROTC literature indicates,killed Vietnamese peasants in their own country.In secret work for the IDA [Institute for Defense Analysis] and the CIA,in chemical-biological war research for the Department of War,the Trustees implicated their own University in genocide.They had consistently ...lied to their own constituents and published CIA books under the guise of independent scholarship....Columbia,standing at the top of a hill,looked down on Harlem....People who survived in Harlem had been evicted by the Trustees from Morningside or still paid rent to Columbia....We walked to our classrooms across land that had been privatized; we studied in buildings that had once been homes in a city that is underhoused; and we listened to the apologies for Cold War and capital in our classes. Columbia professors often claim that the University is a neutral institution....A University could not,even if it wanted,choose to be really value-free.It can choose good values; it can choose bad values; or it can remain ignorant of the values on which it acts....A social institution should at least articulate its own perspective,so that its own values may be consciously applied or modified.It is a typical fallacy of American teaching,that to remain silent on crucial issues is to be objective with your own constituents.Actually a 'neutral' institution is far more manipulative than a University committed to avowed goals and tasks."
What stance did the SDS take with regard to the notion that Columbia University is a "neutral institution"?
A) It agrees with this estimation.
B) It believes that universities have the capacity to be neutral,but that Columbia is particularly biased.
C) It believes that it is impossible for universities to be neutral institutions,and thus they should make careful value judgments.
D) It believes that it is impossible for a university to be value-free,but that this ideal should be strived for.
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