Professor who offended power elite resigns post

Professor who offended power elite resigns post
- October 13, 2011
- Mark Petracca, political science associate professor, is quoted in the Orange County Register October 12, 2011
From the OC Register:
Fred Smoller is gone from his post as head of Brandman University's master of public
administration program. He's not fired, as he has tenure, but the situation is a sticky
one that raises thorny issues of academic freedom with critics.... Mark Petracca,
long-time political science professor at UC Irvine, agreed. "It's outrageous," Petracca
said. "Fred was having students do research. He didn't have an ax to grind here. Even
the stuff he's written about the county becoming a single entity is main stream kind
of thinking about how we deal with what Paul Peterson at Harvard called 'proper city
limits.' What's the optimal size for a governmental entity to be? When Marian Bergeson
first came on the Board of Supervisors - right around the time of bankruptcy - her
proposal was to do away with county government. She didn't stick around to make that
happen, but it's hardly a radical thing to say. It's something worth taking seriously
as an idea. It's certainly not an idea for anyone to get upset over - never mind go
to the president of the university to get someone removed from a position of responsibility.
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