¹ One member of Vasconcellos' subcommittee said that since he had to disclose his outside income, professors should be subject to the same requirement. This overlooks what would seem to be a fundamental distinction: Elected officials are responsible to the electorate for their political utterances and behavior, but the whole point about academic freedom is that professors should not have to answer to anyone for the political acceptability of what they say and do

² A 1977 survey of faculty by Everett Carli Ladd, Jr., and Seymour M. Lipset yields the information that professors who publish make more outside income than those who do not. This should surprise only those who think that consulting must result in slighting teaching and research.

³ Everett Carli Ladd, Jr., “The Economic Position of the American Professoriate: A Survey Portrait,” paper prepared for a conference at the University of Southern California, January, 1978. I am indebted to Professor Ladd also for the information that consulting professors are more liberal politically than those who do not consult. This relationship persists, in diminished strength, when one controls for the type of institution in which the respondents teach. (Faculty at the major research universities are more likely both to be liberals and to consult.)